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    James Watt was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer who improved the Newcomen steam engine with his separate condenser which greatly improved its efficiency. His improvements helped kickstart the Industrial Revolution and he developed many technologies that were crucial to the development of the steam engine such as the parallel motion, centrifugal governor, and indicator diagram. He was born in 1736 in Greenock, Scotland and died in 1819 in Birmingham, England where he had partnered with Matthew Boulton to mass produce his improved steam engines.

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    James Watt was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer who improved the Newcomen steam engine with his separate condenser which greatly improved its efficiency. His improvements helped kickstart the Industrial Revolution and he developed many technologies that were crucial to the development of the steam engine such as the parallel motion, centrifugal governor, and indicator diagram. He was born in 1736 in Greenock, Scotland and died in 1819 in Birmingham, England where he had partnered with Matthew Boulton to mass produce his improved steam engines.

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    James Watt

    Portrait of James Watt (17361819)


    by Carl Frederik von Breda

    Born

    19 January 1736
    Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland

    Died

    25 August 1819 (aged 83)[1]


    Handsworth, Birmingham, England

    Residence

    Glasgow, Scotland, thenHandsworth,


    England

    Nationality

    Scottish

    Fields

    Mechanical engineer

    Institutions University of Glasgow


    Boulton and Watt
    Known for

    Watt steam engine


    Separate condenser

    Parallel motion
    Sun and planet gear (with William
    Murdoch)
    Centrifugal governor
    Indicator diagram (with John Southern)
    Influences

    Thomas Newcomen
    Joseph Black
    Adam Smith
    John Robison (physicist)
    John Roebuck
    James Keir
    Signature

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