We mean James Watt, the great improver of the steam engine—that wonderful motor which has not inaptly been called tfce iron apostle of civilization. This is not his natal day fcut it is the ...

So it was for James Watt, whose Watt engine is often considered ... But it was his work on steam engines and their rapid deployment into various industries that helped kick-start the Industrial ...

DOM:'When he grew up, he became a mechanical engineer and started to eagerly explore how steam engines worked.' DICK:'James Watt's genius was to take the steam engine an invention that had been ...

The move is part of a year-long celebration of James Watt's life and work, marking the 200th anniversary of his death. Watt was renowned for his contribution to steam engine technology.

These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used for pumping water out of mines. In 1763 James Watt was repairing a model of a Newcomen engine. He developed ...

Scottish mechanical engineer James Watt patents his design for the first practical steam engine, paving the way for the mechanized production of the Industrial Revolution. Asa Whitney presents a ...

A gentleman from Old Typerwriters and Calculators demonstrated a James Watt Copying press from 1780, known to be the first ...

The King, His Ministers, and many of the Nobles and Commoners of the Realm raised this monument to JAMES WATT who, directing the force of an original Genius, early exercised in philosophic research, ...

ADAM SMITH would be baffled by microelectronics. When the great economist died in 1790 James Watt’s two-cylinder steam engine passed for the height of technological sophistication. If he ...