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• James Watt — Infobox Person name = James Watt caption = Inventor and Mechanical Engineer birth date = birth date|1736|1|19 birth place = Greenock, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain death date = death date |1819|8|25| Although a number of… …   Wikipedia

• History of the steam engine — This article primarily deals with the history of the reciprocating type steam engine. The parallel development of turbine type engines is described in the steam turbine article. The history of the steam engine stretches back as far as the first… …   Wikipedia

• Watt steam engine — The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen engine, the Watt steam engine,… …   Wikipedia

• steam engine — steam engine, adj. an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler. [1745 55] * * * Machine that uses steam power to perform mechanical work… …   Universalium

• James Watt — (Gemälde von Henry Howard, um 1797) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• James Eckford Lauder — (August 15, 1811 March 27, 1869), was a notable mid Victorian Scottish artist, famous for both portraits and historical pictures.A younger brother of artist Robert Scott Lauder, he was born at Silvermills House, Edinburgh, the 5th and youngest… …   Wikipedia

• Steam engine — A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. [ [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/564472/steam engine steam engine Britannica Online Encyclopedia ] ] Steam engines have a long history,… …   Wikipedia

• James Watt — noun Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736 1819) • Syn: ↑Watt • Instance Hypernyms: ↑engineer, ↑applied scientist, ↑technologist, ↑inventor, ↑discoverer, ↑artifi …   Useful english dictionary

• James Watt — (1736 1819) Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam engine after whom electrical wattage is named …   English contemporary dictionary

• Marine steam engine — Period cut away diagram of a triple expansion steam engine installation, circa 1918 A marine steam engine is a reciprocating steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. Steam turbines and diesel engines largely replaced reciprocating steam …   Wikipedia

• Boulton, Watt and Murdoch — The gilded bronze statue of Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch by William Bloye stands on a plinth of Portland stone, outside the old Register Office on Broad Street in Birmingham, England.It is known locally as The Golden Boys after …   Wikipedia