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“I can think of nothing else than this machine.”
“It is not worth my while to manufacture in three countries only; but I can find it very worthwhile to make it for the whole world.”
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James Watt foi um inventor, engenheiro e químico escocês que melhorou o motor a vapor Newcomen de Thomas Newcomen de 1712 com seu motor a vapor Watt em 1776, o qual foi fundamental para as mudanças trazidas pela Revolução Industrial tanto em sua Grã-Bretanha natal quanto no resto do mundo.