James Watt of Steam Engine

James Watt (19 January 1736-25 Agustus 1819) was an inventor who developed the steam engine that became the basis of the Industrial Revolution.

James Watt was born on January 19, 1736 in Greenock, a seaport town on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. His father is a ship owner and contractor, while his mother, Agnes Muirhead, came from respectable and educated family.

Watt did not attend school regularly but more and more educated at home by his mother. He showed remarkable dexterity and talent to an exact science like mathematics, although Latin and Greek did not move him, he liked the legends and folklore of Scotland.

When she was 18 years old, his mother died and his father's health began to decline slowly, Watt traveled to London to continue the study on the manufacture of instruments and equipment for one year, then returned to Scotland with the aim of making your own instrument-making business. But because he did not complete his seven-year study as apprentices (students who work while studying), an application to open a business is hampered, though at that time there has been no mathematical instrument maker and equipment in Scotland.

Assisted by three professors at the University of Glasgow, James Watt finally given the opportunity to open a workshop (garage) in a small university.

Four years after opening his shop, James Watt began to experiment with steam after his friend, Professor John Robison, got him interested in the machine. At that time, Watt had never operated a steam engine, but he still tried to make a model of the machine. Although it failed, he continued his experiments and began to read what can be read. He then separately discovered the importance of thermal energy generated and absorbed by each region to understand more about the machine. in 1765 he managed to make a model of a machine that can work well.

In recognition of his services for the development of the steam engine triggered the industrial revolution, and immortalized the name of Watt as a unit of energy used by the symbol W by the International System of Units (or 'SI') as we know it today.

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