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	Inventor James Watt Biography
		Watt determined the properties of steam, especially the relation of its density to its temperature and pressure, and designed a separate condensing chamber for the steam engine that prevented enormous losses of steam in the cylinder and enhanced the vacuum conditions.
		Watt continued his research and patented several other important inventions, including the rotary engine for driving various types of machinery; the double-action engine, in which steam is admitted alternately into both ends of the cylinder; and the steam indicator, which records the steam pressure in the engine.
		James Watt College of Further and Higher Education is the largest college in Scotland and one of the most progressive and dynamic colleges in the country.
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	James Watt - MSN Encarta
		Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland.
		Watt determined the properties of steam, especially the relation of its density to its temperature and pressure, and designed a separate condensing chamber for the steam engine that prevented enormous losses of steam in the cylinder and enhanced the vacuum conditions.
		Watt continued his research and patented several other important inventions, including the rotary engine for driving various types of machinery; the double-action engine, in which steam is admitted alternately into both ends of the cylinder; and the steam indicator, which records the steam pressure in the engine.
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	James Watt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Watt was born on 19th of January, 1736 in Greenock, a seaport on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.
		Watt patented the application of the sun and planet gear to steam in 1781 and a steam locomotive in 1784, both of which have strong claims to have been invented by his employee, William Murdoch.
		Watt was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of London.
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	James Watt College, Scotland. Information for International Students.
		James Watt College offers a range of specialist courses aimed directly at International students in addition to our full course range.
		Find out more about life at James Watt College from some of our current international students.
		Information and advice on how to apply for a course at James Watt College.
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	James Watt - page 1
		JAMES WATT'S role in the evolution of steam power is often misrepresented.
		Watt was born in Greenock on the River Clyde in Scotland in 1736, the son of a merchant.
		Watt was by no means a rich man, and he knew he needed money and facilities to develop his idea.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: James Watt
		Watt himself described the provenance of the invention of the sun and planet gear in a letter to Boulton from Watt dated, January 3rd, 1782, : The sun and planet gear was a method of converting vertical motion to rotary motion and utilised a reciprocating steam engine.
		James Watt (January 19, 1736 - August 19, 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were a key stage in the Industrial Revolution.
		Watt was opposed to the use of high pressure steam, and is held by some to have held back the technical development of the steam engine by other engineers, until his patents expired in 1800.
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	James Watt - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Watt inventó el movimiento paralelo para convertir el movimiento circular a un movimiento casi rectilíneo, del cual estaba muy orgulloso, y el medidor de presión para medir la presión del vapor en el cilindro a lo largo de todo el ciclo de trabajo de la máquina, mostrando así su eficiencia y ayudándolo a perfeccionarla.
		Watt ayudó sobremanera al desarrollo de la máquina de vapor, convirtiéndola, de un proyecto tecnológico, a una forma viable y económica de producir energía.
		Watt se opuso al uso de vapor a alta presión, y hay quien le acusa de haber ralentizado el desarrollo de la máquina de vapor por otros ingenieros, hasta que sus patentes expiraron en el año 1800.
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		Watt became acquainted with the Newcomen engine when he was repairing the University's model of it.
		Watt wrote:"...the idea came into my mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
		Watt never developped engines that were powerful for their weight, because he refused to use high-pressure steam.
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	James Watt - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		James Watt (January 19, 1736–August 19, 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine contributed to a key stage in the Industrial Revolution.
		James Watt's model of the steam engine converted a machine of limited use to one of efficiency and multiple applications.
		Watt was ranked #22 on Michael H. Hart's list of the most influential figures in history.
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	James Watt - Wikipedia
		James Watt war ein Instrumentenmacher, der an der Universität von Glasgow ab 1757 mathematische Instrumente (Kompasse, Quadranten u.a.) herstellte.
		Watts erste Verbesserungen der Dampfmaschine ermöglichten gegenüber den Vorläufermodellen bereits eine Ersparnis an Steinkohle von über 60 Prozent.
		Damit hatte James Watt nun eine Dampfmaschine entwickelt, bei der die komplette Arbeit vom Dampf geleistet wurde, und nicht mehr ein Teil der Arbeit vom relativ niedrigen natürlichen Luftdruck; damit wurden wesentlich stärkere Maschinen möglich.
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	James Watt
		James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736, the son of a ship's chandler (trader in canvas, etc).
		Watt wrote:"...the idea came into my mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
		Watt never developed engines that were powerful for their weight, because he refused to use high-pressure steam.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Biographies/WattBio.htm (485 words)

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		Watt invented the centrifugal governor to regulate the speed of a steam engine.
		The parallel motion to convert circular motion to an approximate straight line motion (of which he was most proud) and the steam indicator to measure steam presure in the cylinder throughout the working cycle of the engine.
		Watt greatly helped the development of the embryonic steam engine into a viable and economic means of power generation.
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	James Watt - Wikipédia
		James Watt (Greenock, 19 de Janeiro de 1736 — Heathfield, 19 de Agosto de 1819) foi um matemático e engenheiro escocês cujos melhoramentos do motor a vapor foram um passo fundamental na revolução industrial.
		Em 9 de Agosto de 1768, James Watt registou a patente para um dispositivo que melhorava a produtividade da máquina a vapor de Newcomen, com a ajuda de um condensador e uma bomba de ar.
		James Watt precisava de um parceiro com capital, para desenvolver a técnica e registar a patente.
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	James Watt
		James Watt was actually born in Scotland in 1736 although he is associated with Birmingham and the West Midlands through his partnership with Matthew Boulton the great industrialist.
		James Watt retired in 1800 a wealthy man and died in 1819.
		When we talk about watts and wattage in electrical units we are using his surname after which this form of measurement was named in his honour by the British Association in 1882.
	www.birminghamuk.com /watt.htm (391 words)

	James Watt - Wikipédia
		James Watt (19 janvier 1736 - 19 août 1819) était un mathématicien et ingénieur écossais dont les améliorations à la machine à vapeur furent une étape clé dans la révolution industrielle.
		Watt a développé une chambre de condensation séparée ce qui a augmenté significativement l’efficacité.
		Watt était opposé à l’utilisation de vapeur à haute pression, et certains considèrent qu’il a freiné le développement technique de la machine à vapeur par d’autres ingénieurs, jusqu’à ce que ses brevets expirent en 1800.
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	James Watt (1736-1819)
		James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736, the son of a ship's chandler (trader in canvas, etc).
		Watt had little formal education due to poor health in his youth, but pottering about in his father's shop he developed an interest in trying to make things "work like clockwork".
		In 1882, 63 years after Watt's death, the British Association gave his name to the unit of electrical power - and today James Watt's name is to be found written on almost every lightbulb in the world.
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		Watt adopted the centrifugal governor to regulate the speed of a engine.
		Watt was opposed to the use of pressure steam and is held by some have held back the technical development of steam engine by other engineers until his expired in 1800.
		James Watt's model of the steam engine a machine of limited use to one efficiency and many applications.
	www.freeglossary.com /James_Watt (884 words)

	James Watt artist, paintings and art at the Red Rag Scottish Art Gallery
		James Watt was born in Glasgow and is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art.
		James Watt was elected to RGI in 2002.
		James Watt is an immensely successful Scottish contemporary artist, his paintings can be found in numerous public art collections as well as the private art collections of Her Majesty the Queen, His Royal Highness Prince Philip and The Princess Royal.
	www.scottishartpaintings.co.uk /showArtist.asp?aId=23 (292 words)

	BBC - History - James Watt (1736 - 1819)
		Watt realised that this was because it was hopelessly inefficient.
		In 1768 Watt visited Dr Roebuck, who was backing him because he wanted a more efficient engine to pump the water out of his coalmines.
		By 1790 Watt was a wealthy man, having received £76 000 in royalties on his patents in eleven years.
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		James Watt, the son of a merchant, was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1736.
		Watt worked on the idea for several months and eventually produced a steam engine that cooled the used steam in a condenser separate from the main cylinder.
		Watt calculated that a horse exerted a pull of 180 lb., therefore, when he made a machine, he described its power in relation to a horse, i.e.
	www.pioneers.historians.co.uk /watt.html (490 words)

	More about James Watt
		James Watt was born in Greenock on the Clyde in 1736, the son of a ship's chandler.
		James Watt's garret workshop at Heathfield, which had been left untouched since his death, as photographed in 1901 prior to the contents being removed to the Science Museum in London.
		Watt was in the habit of dismissing any ideas other than his own, regardless of who suggested them, as being notions he had had already entertained and had discarded, and Murdock may simply have fallen victim to this trait.
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	James Watt - Britannia Biographies
		Greenock-born Watt, a friend of the pioneering engineer John Smeaton, realised the necessity of removing the condensing of steam from the cylinder that had to be continually heated to hold steam for the power stroke and then cooled to condense the steam.
		In 1765, Watt proposed that the steam should be condensed in a condenser outside the cylinder; it was one of the greatest advances in the development of industry; it revolutionized the steam engine and it transformed the world.
		Watt madr many improvements such as the air pump, steam-jacketed cylinders, double acting engines (in which the piston both pushed and pulled), the sun and planet rotary mechanism (thus adapting the steam engine for rotary motion), parallel motion and the governor for regulating an engine's speed.
	www.britannia.com /bios/watt.html (455 words)

	::James Watt::
		James Watt was born in 1736 and died in 1819.
		Watt's great claim to fame is that he greatly improved on the steam engine thus paving the way for their use in factories, mills, mines etc.
		Watt also insulated his cylinder to maintain the high temperatures that were needed for maximum efficiency.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /watt.htm (378 words)

	James Watt in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		'James Watt' (19 January 1736 – 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.
		Watt traveled to London to study mathematical instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland – to Glasgow – intent on setting up his own instrument-making business.
		Watt was ranked #1, tying with Edison, among 229 significant figures in the history of technology by Charles Murray's survey of historiometry presented in his book Human Accomplishments.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/James_Watt (2173 words)

	James Watt
		Watt worked on the idea for several months and eventually produced a steam engine that cooled the used steam in a condenser separate from the main cylinder.
		Watt's machine was very popular because it was four times more powerful than those that had been based on the Thomas Newcomen design.
		Watt calculated that a horse exerted a pull of 180 lb., therefore, when he made a machine, he described its power in relation to a horse, i.e.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SCwatt.htm (522 words)

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