![]() Watt introduced a design enhancement, the separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines. ![]() He realised that contemporary engine designs wasted a great deal of energy by repeatedly cooling and reheating the cylinder. While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. James Watt FRS FRSE ( / w ɒ t/ 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. ( Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by Francis Chantrey)
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