WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -James Watt, (born January 19, 1736, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland-died August 25, 1819, Heathfield Hall, near Birmingham, Warwick, England), Scottish instrument maker and inventor whose steam engine contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -James Watt (January 30, 1736-August 25, 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist whose steam engine patented in 1769 greatly increased the efficiency and range of use of the early atmospheric steam engine introduced by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.

Detailed explanation-3: -James Watt did not invent the steam engine. He did, however, improve the engine apparatus. In 1764 Watt observed a flaw in the Newcomen steam engine: it wasted a lot of steam. Watt deduced that the waste resulted from the steam engine’s single-cylinder design.

Detailed explanation-4: -This solution was Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 invention of a simple single-piston pump, the first machine to successfully direct steam to produce work. Newcomen engines were quickly put to use all over England to pump out the water that regularly flooded the coal mines.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Scottish inventor is known for his efficient steam engine that was first patented in 1769.