for the large memorial volume on “James Watt and the Steam Engine”, due to the collaboration of Mr. Rhys Jenkins and Mr. Dickinson, was never likely to be widely read, while the older work by ...

DICK:'James Watt's genius was to take the steam engine an invention that had been around for many years and make it work better and more efficiently than anyone else had managed and make himself a ...

These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used for pumping water out of mines. In 1763 James Watt was repairing a model of a Newcomen engine. He developed ...