Definition of James Watt

1. Noun. Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).


Lexicographical Neighbors of James Watt

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James Usher
James Ussher
James Watson
James Watt (current term)
James Whitcomb Riley
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Literary usage of James Watt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, ... The Life of James Watt. By James Patrick Muirhead, Esq., MA 1 vol. 8vo. ..."

2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"Now this invention immediately reduced the consumption of fuel by one-half, but imagine James Watt going before examiners for his patent. ..."

3. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (1846)
"NOTICE AND CHARACTER James Watt.* This name fortunately needs no ... James Watt, the great improver of the steam-engine, died on the 25th of August, 1819, ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"The following Character, copied from an Edinburgh Paper, is ascribed to the pen of Mr. Jeffrey: “The name of Mr. James Watt, the great improver of the ..."

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