James Watt
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
JAMES WATT
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BIOGRAPHY
- Engineer/Inventor
- Born Jan. 19
- Died Aug. 25
- Scottish
- Homeschooled
- Became an apprentice
RESEARCH AND DISCOVERIES
- Innovated Newcomen engine
- Scientific concept of latent heat
- Horsepower
- Copy machine
- Invented steam engine
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HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- British at war with France
- Industrial revolution
AWARDS/PRIZES
- Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy in Rotterdam.
- Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow
- watt’ as the unit of power in International System of Units.
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