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date: 20 February 2020

Watt, Jameslocked

(1769–1848)
  • Eric H. Robinson

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Watt, James (1769–1848), engineer and manufacturer, was born on 5 February 1769 at Glasgow, the son of the engineer James Watt (1736–1819) and his first wife and cousin, Margaret Miller, who died in 1773. The younger James had difficulties with his father and his father's second wife, ...

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