James Watt

Born

January 19, 1736

Died

August 25, 1819 (aged 83)

Known as

engineer, chemist, physicist, inventor, entrepreneur, mathematician

James Watt 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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