James Watt

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.

Big thanks to the science department at Clydebank High School for lending us a fully working model! It was great to see how a steam engine works in real life!