James Watt in his Glasgow workshop improving on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine, with his Watt steam engine in 1781. James Watt, 1736 -1819. Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published 1870.

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