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Not who you're looking for? Others named James Watt: Scottish engineer, businessman and activist (1769–1848) · Bomb maker · British surgeon & maritime historian (1914-2009) · Scottish lawyer, actuary and geographer (1863-1945)
James Watt 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.
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