So it was for James Watt ... the impact of the Watt engine on the Industrial Revolution was his creation of the double-acting engine. Doubling the efficiency, it condensed steam both above ...

DOM:'When he grew up, he became a mechanical engineer and started to eagerly explore how steam engines worked.' DICK:'James Watt's genius was to take the steam engine an invention that had been ...

These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used for pumping water out of mines. In 1763 James Watt was repairing a model of a Newcomen engine. He developed ...