Watt steam engine being "inspected" by an older gentleman


Steam engine from the Watt factory set up at an antique engine museum. This engine powered one of the first machine tools, a boring machine for cylinders. Steam engines invented by James Watt and associates powered the industrial revolution by freeing factory location from power sources (waterfalls).


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