James Watt

James Watt

James Watt (; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native country Great Britain, and the rest of the world. While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. At the time engineers such as John Smeaton were aware of the inefficiencies of Newcomen's engine and aimed to improve it. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Watt has received more than 3,909,831 page views. His biography is available in 132 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 128 in 2019). James Watt is the 5th most popular inventor, the 12th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular British Inventor.

James watt is most famous for inventing the steam engine.