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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Scottish Presbyterians, Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees, Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1736 births, Articles with short description
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Watt  James Watt  James, Sr. Watt  James von Breda Watt  James Watt's Fire Engines Patent Act 1775
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Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) WordNet 3.0
English:
inventor
Definitions
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Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. Wikipedia
British engineer Wikidata
IS A
engineer
inventor
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
CAUSE OF DEATH
cancer
CHILD
James Watt junior
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Great Britain
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Obalky knih.cz
DIFFERENT FROM
James Watt junior
EDUCATED AT
University of Glasgow
EMPLOYER
University of Glasgow
ETHNIC GROUP
Scot
FAMILY NAME
Watt
FIELD OF WORK
invention
mechanical engineering
steam engine
instrument maker
GIVEN NAME
James
INFLUENCED BY
Thomas Newcomen
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Lunar Society of Birmingham
French Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Edinburgh
OCCUPATION
engineer
chemist
mathematician
physicist
technician
+1 relations
ON FOCUS LIST OF WIKIMEDIA PROJECT
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OWNER OF
Boulton and Watt
Heathfield Hall
PLACE OF BIRTH
Greenock
PLACE OF BURIAL
St Mary's Church, Handsworth
PLACE OF DEATH
Heathfield Hall
RELATIVE
Robert Watson-Watt
RESIDENCE
Glasgow
SEX OR GENDER
male
WORK LOCATION
Birmingham
Glasgow
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Watt, James Watt
Wikipedia
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James Watt
Wikidata
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James Watt
Wikipedia Redirections
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James watt, James Watt's Fire Engines Patent Act 1775, James Watt (inventor), James Watt of Scotland, James Watt of Scottland, Watt, James
Wikidata Alias
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James, Sr. Watt, James von Breda Watt

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