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Definition of James Watt
1. Noun. Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).
Generic synonyms: Applied Scientist, Engineer, Technologist, Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor
Lexicographical Neighbors of James Watt
Literary usage of James Watt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, ... The Life
of James Watt. By James Patrick Muirhead, Esq., MA 1 vol. 8vo. ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"Now this invention immediately reduced the consumption of fuel by one-half, but
imagine James Watt going before examiners for his patent. ..."
3. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (1846)
"NOTICE AND CHARACTER James Watt.* This name fortunately needs no ... James Watt,
the great improver of the steam-engine, died on the 25th of August, 1819, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"The following Character, copied from an Edinburgh Paper, is ascribed to the pen
of Mr. Jeffrey: “The name of Mr. James Watt, the great improver of the ..."
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