James Watt
1736–1819 · Person
Scottish engineer whose improved steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, People, England, Science & Technology, Master
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
Around 1736
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)