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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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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.
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