Alphabetical Index Index by Birth Year
James Watt
*1736 in in Greenock
+11819 in in Heathfield
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James Watt 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.
2017 J. Giesen
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