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Article: Here and there James Watt items to be auctioned
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- February 24, 2003
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THERE is no doubt that James Watt was one of the greatest Scots of
all time. The facts of his extraordinary life speak for themselves.
He was the man who perfected the steam engine and gave Britain the
power to fuel the industrial revolution. He was the man who invented
the prototype for the photocopier. He was the man who first coined
and defined the term "horsepower", and he was the man in whose honour
the unit of electrical power was christened and whose name is to be
found on every light bulb. He was all these and more besides.
It has even been said that but for James Watt the industrial
revolution might never have happened. Born in Greenock in 1736, the
son of a merchant, he went, at ...