The motorcycle engine has come a long way from its auspicious 19th-century beginnings, evolving over the years to include ...

Scottish mechanical engineer James Watt patents his design for the first practical steam engine, paving the way for the mechanized production of the Industrial Revolution. Asa Whitney presents a ...

A diagram of Watt's 1776 steam engine. James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736. He worked making scientific instruments but, in the 1760s, he took an interest in steam engines. In 1776 ...

WATTS:Alright boys. DICK:'James Watt was born in 1736 in Grennock, Scotland.' The story goes that as a boy he was fascinated by the steam pouring out of a boiling kettle.' DOM:'When he grew up ...

The King, His Ministers, and many of the Nobles and Commoners of the Realm raised this monument to JAMES WATT who, directing the force of an original Genius, early exercised in philosophic research, ...