James Watt (Person)
James Watt
1736 AD - 1819 AD
Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776
He developed the concept of horsepower, and the SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him.
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