Exploring the Life and Times of James Watt

James Watt FRS FRSE (19January 1736) - 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. Watt improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, resulting in a new engine which was fundamental to the Industrial Revolution.
Watt first became interested in the technology of steam engines while working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow. He realised that contemporary engine designs wasted a great deal of energy through repeatedly cooling and reheating the main cylinder. To resolve this issue, Watt introduced a new design enhancement, the separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines.
Watt entered a partnership with Matthew Boulton in 1775 and the new firm of Boulton and Watt was highly successful. In his retirement, Watt continued to develop new inventions though none was as significant as his steam engine work. Perhaps most famously, he developed the concept of horsepower, and the SI unit of power, the watt, is named after him.
In this James Watt documentary we're exploring the life and times of James Watt
Some images sourced from Wikicommons (commons.wikimedia.org).
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[@TimothyLast]

Lovely! Absolutely fascinating to find out more about the life of this amazing engineer. 🙂

[@gordonallan2798]

I was particularly interested in finding this excellent film while preparing for a mini holiday in Birmingham. I wonder if Dr Malcolm Dick realised that he dated the building of the steam engine foundry as 1996! It was of course 1796. A most enjoyable film though.

[@kylehewitt7]

James Watt is one of my ancestors, I didnt take my dad's last name but if I did I'd too be a Watt. So it's really cool to see how his life turned out and it's even cooler that my family made it's way onto the British £50 note

[@courtney4549]

Hahahah I’m a Watt as well, and we’re pretty sure James Watt is one of our ancestors as well

[@richardwatts9562]

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[@rudyardwalker9113]

Wonderful! I'm a descendant of Euler.

[@mohammedibrahim42]

Good to know that buddy I'm big fan of him, too he's great inventor 😁🤔

[@Liam-zt5pj]

James watt is my ancestor also- haha so weird 😂

[@michellewatts5145]

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[@eliotreader8220]

I love the well told story about Watt watching steam coming out of the family's kettle as the water inside it boiled. I also like the story about him figuring out how to fix that model steam engine

[@callumturner4674]

James Watt is one of my ancestors as well, my second name is Watt in the honor of Him

[@mohammedibrahim42]

James watts was genius by all means 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 father of steam engine

[@reason827]

The father of Industrial Revolution.

[@rammingspeed5217]

He was also a tadger

[@apexyao8931]

Excellent video! I wished that the background music can be softer.

[@SteamboatWilley]

"In 1996" You mean 1796, right?

[@electricmaster23]

Yeah, kind of a shame it wasn't annotated in.

[@wattage-uk9zt]

If the engine or pump provides Steam Power, then it's a Steam Engine or Steam Pump, ( James Watt's machines ). If the pump provides Atmospheric Power, then it's an Atmospheric Pump ( Newcomen's machines ).

[@dovyuri7697]

are there some related movie about this great inventor, please tell me

[@jerrydeng6186]

NICE

[@wetflannel6343]

His name is still all over inverclyde and greenock I'm very proud to walk the 'same' streets as him he also has a weatherspoons named after him called The James Watt 🤣

[@user-ey6oi4xw8r]

James Watt was the only Giant of the Industrial Revolution! Take away James Watt's Steam Power and Steam Engines, no Industrial Revolution!

[@hiltonroberts8742]

Where Watt a mystic, he would have opted for the "cold steam" option which requires more magical and less mechanical prowess.

[@sadikrady6066]

جيمس وط مخترع المحرك البخاري( ١٧٣٦- ١٨١٩)

[@ammanali2109]

Anyone go to the College in Birmingham?

[@officialbritishtaxpayer5609]

This is really interesting potted history of the great man but would benefit from more relevant film and photo clips to illiustrate the various points. The erudite and knowlwdgeable academics, to take just one example, talking about Boulton and Watt's rivals (pre-1800) while showing a Parsons turbine or a locomotive of 100+ years later, hinders rather than helps the narrative and will only serve to confuse neophyte s wanting to learn about the subject.

[@nasalimbu3078]

Mark 1 Ship flyight

[@wattage-uk9zt]

Watt's great "breakthrough" was nothing to do with efficiency, although it was more efficient. It was all to do with dumping Newcomen's Atmospheric Power and Arkwright's Water-Wheel Power for High Pressure Steam Power. To achieve that he had to INVENT a new engine, the world's first PRACTICAL High Pressure Steam Engine. For the first time in human history we had something that could replace, outperform and more importantly vastly outnumber the rare 2000 years old Water-wheel. Watt was proved right about extremely High Pressure Steam, we didn't get a viable Locomotive in the form of Stevenson's " Rocket " ( A Watt High Pressure Steam Engine on wheels) till years after his death.

[@supersmart671]

1990's 12:53?😢😢😢😢

[@hiltonroberts8742]

This machine though, has to be fed with coal. So is it really our servant or have we become its slave?

[@TH-kn9lw]

Kind of both You scratch my back i scratch yours :D

[@philnewcomers9170]

Newcomen.Newcomen.Newcomen. . ....

[@ronicakmak3489]

My friend is trying to claim he is related to this guy lmao

[@fatimashabbir5574]

😧😧😧

[@supersmart671]

Bible was so influential in his life..

[@davidcolver2502]

The music is unnecessary and distracting.

[@walterbennie816]

Watt's great breakthrough was to dump Newcomen's Atmospheric Power for Steam Power. To achieve this he had to invent a new engine, the world's first practical Steam Engine. Watt was right, locomotives didn't arrive till after his death!

[@Abhinavkumar-og3xd]

Please speak in hindi.

[@octaviawatts7087]

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[@richardwatts9562]

HI