National Museum of Scotland - statue of James Watt
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National Museum of Scotland - statue of James Watt
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 17 Oct 2016
James Watt is one of Scotland's most famous sons and is best remembered as an improver (not inventor) of the steam engine. He was, however, a true polymath and his areas of interest included, surveying, civil engineering, instrument making, chemistry and document copying to name but a few. His improvements to the steam engine were principally the separate condenser, rotative motion with the sun and planet gear, parallel motion and the application of the centrifugal governor (a device already in use in corn mills). He also dabbled with rotary steam engines (there is a model prototype in the Science Museum) but tip sealing was not solved.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.947164
Longitude
-3.189829