James Watt

Also known as James, Sr. Watt, James von Breda Watt

British engineer (1736–1819)

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James Watt was a Scottish engineer who lived from 1736 to 1819 and made crucial improvements to the steam engine, which became a driving force of the Industrial Revolution. His innovations made steam engines much more efficient and practical for industrial use, fundamentally transforming manufacturing, transportation, and power generation in the modern world.

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Person · Open Library

Died: 1821
Works: 40

Top works

Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period
Credicombe Away
Credicombe Down
Credicombe Up
Triumph in Kleptomadia

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: San Pedro
Active from: 1957-12-20

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 40
Total plays: 82

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,697x
Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,232x
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,151x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,759x
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,282x

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Quotes

“I can think of nothing else than this machine.”
“It is not worth my while to manufacture in three countries only; but I can find it very worthwhile to make it for the whole world.”

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Commons category: James Watt
date of birth: 1736-01-19
date of death: 1819-08-19
Commons gallery: James Watt
name in native language: James Watt
P8168: Cynoglossum
P12749: Metzerlen-Mariastein
date of burial or cremation: 1819-09-02

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Article

Statue of Watt (Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by Francis Chantrey)

James Watt (/wɒt/; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.