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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Series Three: The Papers of James Watt and his Family
formerly held at Doldowlod House, now at Birmingham Central Library
Part 2: Correspondence, Papers & Business Records, 1736-1848
Part 2 of this microfilm project continues with:
- James Watt's personal correspondence (Reels 21-31)
- James Watt's diaries, account books and memoranda books (Reels 32-33)
- James Watt's business records: instrument making (Reel 33)
- James Watt's business records: surveying (Reels 33-34)
- James Watt's business records: steam engines (Reels 34-35)
- Papers concerning Watt's various legal battles on the steam engine patent extension, Boulton v Bull, and Boulton & Watt v Hornblower & Maberly (Reels 35-37)
- James Watt's business records: copying machine (Reel 37)
- James Watt's miscellaneous papers (Reels 37-38) including material on Argand’s patent for a lamp, Priestley’s library, canal business, discussions with Telford on bridge designs and with Fulton on the advantages of steam engines.
- James Watt Junior's (1769-1848) press copy letters (Reels 39-40)
- James Watt Junior's (1769-1848) personal correspondence (Reel 40)
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Scottish inventor, instinctive engineer, folk tale chemist.
Whose development weekend away the haze engine was fundamental pick up the Manual Revolution.
Born 19 January 1736, Scotland
Died 25 August 1819 England
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James Watt
Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (1736–1819)
This article is about the inventor and mechanical engineer. For the college, see James Watt College. For the award, see James Watt International Medal. For other people with similar names, see James Watt (disambiguation).
James WattFRS FRSE (; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819)[a] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical 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.
While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. At the time engineers such as John Smeaton were aware of the inefficiencies of Newcomen's engine and aimed to improve it.[1] Watt's insight was to realise that contemporary engine designs wasted a great deal of energy by repeatedly cooling and reheating the cylinder. Watt introduced a design enhancement, the separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines. Eventually, he ad