James
Watt was the Scottish instrument maker whose invention helped
change the world. He invented a new improved steam engine. Watt's steam
engine was faster cheaper and more powerful than any earlier model His
steam engine was to harness power in a way never achieved before and
one that would mark the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.Watt's ambition was to adapt
the action of the beam to produce rotary motion. By 1872 he had
achieved this. The rotative beam engine shown here was built in 1788.