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James Watt   /dʒeɪmz wɑt/   Listen
James Watt

noun
1.
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).  Synonym: Watt.






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"James Watt" Quotes from Famous Books



... lived at Birmingham, where she often met James Watt. In her autobiography (p. 34), she says, "Everybody practically knew the infinite variety of his talents and stores of knowledge. When Mr Watt entered a room, men of letters, men of science, nay, military men, artists, ladies, even little children ...
— Heads and Tales • Various

... James Watt turned the power of steam to practical use in the eighteenth century. But it was not till the first year of the nineteenth that a really workable steamer appeared, though the British, French, and Americans had been experimenting for years, just as ingenious men had been experimenting ...
— All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways • William Wood

... least half a score of the most thoughtless of men." Among those whom we all know who have risen out of obscurity to eminence through a wise economy of time which they have used in reading and study, are, Patrick Henry, Benjamin West, Eli Whitney, James Watt, Richard Baxter, Roger Sherman, Sir Isaac Newton, ...
— Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes • J. M. Judy



Words linked to "James Watt" :   inventor, applied scientist, engineer, technologist, artificer, discoverer



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