Watt’s steam engine hugely impacted the 18th century industrial society. ... 1765: James Watt invents the separate condenser, relocating the water jet in a small additional vessel, ...

What seemed to finalize 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 and below ...

Over at mises.org, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine challenge the standard story of James Watt and the steam engine. Their conclusion: In most ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Improvements in the Steam Engine ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 23 (June 1869), p. 361 doi:10.1038 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Centenary of the Steam Engine—James Watt ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 19 (May 1869), p. 297 doi:10.1038 ...

Making this separate condenser work was right at the limit of existing technology, ... Watt got his first steam engine working; his second went back to drive the bellows for Wilkinson's furnace.

The Watt steam engine and its successors powered the first 100 years of the industrial revolution. ... Watt's first insight was to have a separate condenser for the steam.

He worked as an instrument-maker at the university when he made improvements to a Newcomen steam engine in 1765. Greenock-born Watt added a separate condenser to the engine, making it vastly more ...

DOM:Today, we bring you a man who had a very special kind of genius. DICK:He took an invention that had been around for more than 50 years, the steam engine, and made it a shedload better. DOM ...