James Watt death (1819) and former home (Heathfield Hall)
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The Heathfield House was located on property bounded by North and West Dr. The house no longer exists.
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James Watt
(30 January 1736
(19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a
Scottish inventor,
mechanical engineer, and
chemist who improved on
Thomas Newcomen's 1712
Newcomen steam engine with his
Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the
Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
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