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James Watt (1736-1819)

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Description: Short biography of the man who perfected the steam engine.
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".
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