James Watt's Steam Engine

James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer renowned for improving the steam engine. His invention of a separate condenser significantly increased the engine's efficiency, playing a vital role in the Industrial Revolution. The unit of power, the watt, is named in his honour. Watt's innovations had a lasting impact on industry and engineering.

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[markus]

According historians and books, the first steam machine was patented by Thomas Savery in 1689. But in 1600, almost one hundred years before, Jerónimo de Ayanz had patented in Spain, one steam machine similar to that patented by Savery. These machines were used to pump out water in flooded mines, and is the first use of steam with industrial purposes; this device it is considered to be the precedents for James Wat's steam engines

[Walter-wv]

Britain from 1800 to 1900.
20, 000 Waterwheels decreased in number.
Windmills decreased in number.
The Englishman Thomas Newcomen's 1, 500 Atmospheric Pumps disappeared.
The Scotsman James Watt's 500 Steam Engines and their descendants increased in number to 10, 000, 000 !!!
For every SINGLE Waterwheel in 1800 we now had an additional 500 Steam Engines in1900 !!!
In the space of one ( possible ) human lifetime!
That's an increase in available Power for the whole country of 500 times !!!
This WAS the Industrial Revolution, and it was all due to only one single Invention, James Watt's Invention of the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine.
Take away Steam Power and there's no Industrial Revolution!

[Walter-wv]

James Watt didn't improve Newcomen's Atmospheric Pump, it couldn't be improved, even by James Watt.
Watt dumped Savery and Newcomen's Atmospheric Power and Arkwright's Water-Power for Steam Power. To achieve that he had to invent a new engine, the world's first PRACTICAL Steam Powered Engine.
It changed the world!