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James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess', c1778.
James Watt's prototype steam engine 'Old Bess', c1778. Scottish engineer and inventor Watt (1736-1819) formed a successful partnership with the entrepreneur Matthew Boulton in 1775, building steam engines to power mills, factories and mines. Watt's designs with a separate condenser were more efficient than earlier steam engines. In this engine, which was erected at the Soho works, Birmingham, England, in 1777-1778, reciprocating motion was turned into rotary motion by a sun-and-planet gear train.
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18th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
BOULTON
Boulton & Watt
Britain
British
concept
eighteenth century
Engineering
Engraving
event
gearing
Industrial Revolution
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JAMES
JAMES WATT
MATTHEW
Matthew Boulton
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Old Bess
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Steam
STEAM ENGINE
STEAM POWER
sun and planet gear
WATT