James Watt
(1736-1819)
Industrial Revolution engineer of the steam engine
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James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736 – 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 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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19 January 1736 Greenock, Scotland
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| Died |
25 August 1819 (aged 83) Handsworth, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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