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James watt **Born:** January 19, 1736, **Greenock Scotland.** **Died:** auguest 25, in Heathfield, Birmingham. In 1765 he was asked to repear a steam engine, that was when he saw how inaficiant the steam engine was in his life time. He made some major improvements to the steam engine, but lots of people often think that he invented the steam engine when he in fact just improved it.He Invented the modern condensing, closed cylinder and the steam govener known as watts governer steam eingen. a unit of power called the watt is also named after him. The watt is a standerd unit used for mesuring power.  Watt was the son of a house and ship builder. When Watt grew up most things were the same technology wise as they had been thousands of years ago. When he went to Glasgow University, he got to meet a lot of scientists. Watt soon discovered in 1764 that the steam engine wasted a lot of energy by dissipating the latent heat caused by steam condensing to water.He decided he would build a different engine with a separated condenser, it no longer needed to cool and heat the cylinder every stoke that was made. By 1768 Watt was partners with John Roebuck. John Roebuck was the one who had established an iron foundry that was used to make the steam engine. He verily had any time to develop this and went bankrupt in 1772 . Next watt was partnered with some else who proved more use full. This person was Matthew Boulton. But it still took Watt a long time to finish what was soon known as the watt engine.Some of the first recipracating versions of the item were used for a lot of things. one of the main things was that it wasused for pumping water out of Cornish copper and Tin mines.There was another version used in cotten, flower cotten and paper mills created by Watt in 1781 called a rotating engine. There were many other improvments Watt also created. This pieces of technology were a very import part of the industrial revelation. **Citations:** Niel champion.james watt.chicago:Reed educational & proffesional bublishing by Heinemann library,2001. print. Joghn daintith. Watt, James. The Grolier Library of Science Biograpies. Connecticut: Grolier Educational, 1997. print.
 * What is famous for:**
 * His career:**His job in Glasgow as a mathematical instrument maker, started when he was seventeen.
 * His life history**: He played an important part in industrial revolution.

Did you know?
 * Watt grew up in small towns and villages connected by bumpy rough roads.
 * There is a myth that james watt got the idea of steam powering from his mothers kettlle, when he saw the steam come out.
 * Watt was the first one to use the common term horsepower as a term to signify power.
 * Watt made a lot of money from selling his engines.
 * when Watt retired in 1800 he spent the rest of his life traveling, making minor inventions and working as a consultent.


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