James Watt

Standard Name: Watt, James

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Sophia Lee	SL 's surviving brother, George Augustus Lee , became a partner in a Manchester firm of cotton spinners, and forwarded the new technologies of Matthew Boulton and James Watt , who were both his friends. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
Friends, Associates	Helen Maria Williams	On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...
Friends, Associates	Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck	Her close friends also included Sir Richard and Lady Bedingfield , a Catholic couple living in Sydney Place, London. Sarah Wedgwood (wife of Josiah) wrote to a third party of MAS 's charming and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Jane Marcet	JM 's preface establishes with admirable clarity what she seeks to accomplish, and rehearses for the first time in public her justification of scientific studies for girls. Her instructive dialogue is, as in her earlier...

Timeline

1765

The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of half a dozen men with interests in experimental science, began to meet regularly.

Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.

Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.

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1769

James Watt received a patent (number 913) for his first condensing steam engine, whose scientific principles he had discovered in 1764.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1780

James Watt (building on Erasmus Darwin 's production two years earlier of a mechanically copied letter) marketed a copier for documents which enabled him to make multiple copies of contracts.

Pagden, Anthony. “Great Expectations of Themselves”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 32-3.

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