Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire James Watt's steam engine The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

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 ...