james watt

     

A relative of this inventor described him as a boy staring at the tea kettle for an hour watching it boil

Trivia about james watt

  • Anne Burford resigned as head of the EPA, & he resigned as Secretary of the Interior
  • One of this Scotsman's big ideas was using the expansion of steam to complete a piston stroke
  • The term horsepower owes its origins to an experiment by this steam engine inventor
  • Born 1736 in Scotland, improved on Thomas Newcomen's engine, ran out of steam 1819
  • The idea of horsepower originated with this Scottish engineer, the "Father of the Industrial Rev."
  • This Scottish engineer had to invent the flyball governor to control the speed of his steam engine
  • Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1736, this inventor is mostly renowned for his improvements to the steam engine
  • Controversial Secretary of the Interior under Reagan
  • He came up with a copier machine & a clothes dryer as well as a famous engine
  • This Coloradoan served as President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983
  • His 1769 patent was for "a new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines"

Tweets about james watt

  • #TuesdayTrainFact - The modern age of trains begun in early 1800s after the initial patent of James Watt for stationary steam engine...
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  • "We don't have to protect the environment ― the Second Coming is at hand." ― James Watt
  • RT @Colin_McInnes: So, new job. From 1 Oct will be taking up James Watt Chair at the University of Glasgow
  • James Watt, Antonio Meucci y Santiago Ramón y Cajal fueron importantes para la historia, payaso.
  • So, new job. From 1 Oct will be taking up James Watt Chair at the University of Glasgow
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  • RT @jimmoray: Thanks to James Watt and @BBCRadioStoke for having me. Now, on to Stafford...
  • RT @WickedSmart: James Watt compared horses to his steam engine. He summed a horse pulled 32,580 ft-lb/mn. Thus, a “horsepower". #HP http:/…
  • Thanks to James Watt and @BBCRadioStoke for having me. Now, on to Stafford...
  • Kalian tau James Watt itu siapa?
  • RT @sherryamin13: Brit Amb. to Egypt James Watt : Egyptians know that real security will only come with the political and social empowermen…