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James Watt

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James Watt was a Scottish instrument maker and engineer whose 1769 separate condenser patent dramatically improved the fuel efficiency of Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine and turned it into a general purpose power source suitable for factories and mills rather than mine pumping alone. The watt, the SI unit of power, is named for him.

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1736 1
Death Year
1819 1
Nationality
Scottish 1
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors

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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors

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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source
James Watt (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationIn Group: Engine, Steam Power and Railway Engineers, Introduction
Quote, In Group: Engine, Steam Power and Railway Engineers, Introduction
James Watt (; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS), 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, 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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