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James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)
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Also Known As Christopher Miner Spencer
Born June 20, 1833 • Manchester • Connecticut
Died January 14, 1922 (aged 88) • Hartford • Connecticut
Inventions Spencer carbine
Subjects Of Study carbine • drop forging
Seth Boyden
American inventor
Thaddeus Fairbanks
American inventor
George Eastman, 1926.
George Eastman
American inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer
Herman Hollerith
American inventor
Leo Fender
American inventor and manufacturer
Hoe, Richard March
Richard March Hoe
American inventor and manufacturer
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
American chemist
Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Edwin Norton
American inventor and manufacturer
David Wilkinson
American inventor
Willis Carrier
Willis Carrier
American inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
Scottish engineer
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
English inventor
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
English agronomist
Charles Chubb
British inventor

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James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)
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