James Watt
I will be talking about James Watt and what he did in his lifetime. First, was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. He had improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781. This was a fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. James Watt was born the 19th of January 1736 Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. James Watt died the 25th of August 1819 at (aged 83) Handsworth, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. His Residence was Glasgow, Scotland, then Handsworth, England. His Nationality was Scottish and his Citizenship was British and he was also known for the Watt steam engine,Separate condenser, Parallel motion, Sun and planet gear (with William Murdoch), Centrifugal governor, and Indicator diagram (with John Southern). His fields were:
Mechanical engineer
Institutions University of Glasgow
Boulton and Watt
Influences Thomas Newcomen
Joseph Black
Adam Smith
John Robison (physicist)
John Roebuck
James Keir …show more content…
Watt travelled to London to study instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland, settling in the major commercial city of Glasgow intent on setting up his own instrument-making business. He made and repaired brass reflecting quadrants, parallel rulers, scales, parts for telescopes, and barometers, among other things. Because he had not served at least seven years as an apprentice, the Glasgow Guild of Hammermen (which had jurisdiction over any artisans using hammers) blocked his application, despite there being no other mathematical instrument makers in
I will be talking about James Watt and what he did in his lifetime. First, was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. He had improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781. This was a fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. James Watt was born the 19th of January 1736 Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. James Watt died the 25th of August 1819 at (aged 83) Handsworth, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. His Residence was Glasgow, Scotland, then Handsworth, England. His Nationality was Scottish and his Citizenship was British and he was also known for the Watt steam engine,Separate condenser, Parallel motion, Sun and planet gear (with William Murdoch), Centrifugal governor, and Indicator diagram (with John Southern). His fields were:
Mechanical engineer
Institutions University of Glasgow
Boulton and Watt
Influences Thomas Newcomen
Joseph Black
Adam Smith
John Robison (physicist)
John Roebuck
James Keir …show more content…
Watt travelled to London to study instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland, settling in the major commercial city of Glasgow intent on setting up his own instrument-making business. He made and repaired brass reflecting quadrants, parallel rulers, scales, parts for telescopes, and barometers, among other things. Because he had not served at least seven years as an apprentice, the Glasgow Guild of Hammermen (which had jurisdiction over any artisans using hammers) blocked his application, despite there being no other mathematical instrument makers in