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A Scottish instrument maker, mechanical engineer and inventor, who contributed to the Industrial Revolution with his improvements of the steam engine.
James Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland. At the age of 17, while becoming intrigued with Thomas Newcomen's steam engine, he decided to become a maker of mathematical instruments. Two years later, he became interested in improving the Newcomen-Savery steam engines that were used to pump water from mines at the time.
This man was an interesting fellow. Like many renaissance thinkers, he had the knack of reducing complex ideas into simple, straight forward concepts.
We owe a great deal to these people, and can learn not only from their inventions and discoveries, but from their determination, and willingness to think 'outside the box.'
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