Hi everyone,
I still studying at school at I have a véry cool subject on school named "science".Now please; don't fall a sleep !
I've to do a 'thesis', a sort of work about a scientist his life and work. As the topic title makes clear, I have to a thesis about James Watt! Not too difficult, every little bit smart person knows he made a upgraded version of the steaming machine (and some other stuff). Now I've searched at google for my most info, after 15 number of site's you soon see the (exact) same explanation and information coming up on every site you click, I thought; "just go to the library!" I was planning to do that but...it burned down yesterday night ! :banghead:
Now I was wondering, are there any scientist among you or people who have very good information about J. Watt (perhaps students at a uni who can acces special database's for info's or so)?
I'm looking for some 'funny things to know about his life' and
(most important of all) an answer to the question: "Why was his work so important for the human evolution/further scientific research ?"
As I said, I know the most common things as what he invented, when he was born,...already from google etc... But I find it quiet hard to answer on that one question. Well I have an answer, but perhaps some smart guys like you know something more you can't find on the net ?!
Cheers and thanks ahead,
GC
I still studying at school at I have a véry cool subject on school named "science".Now please; don't fall a sleep !
I've to do a 'thesis', a sort of work about a scientist his life and work. As the topic title makes clear, I have to a thesis about James Watt! Not too difficult, every little bit smart person knows he made a upgraded version of the steaming machine (and some other stuff). Now I've searched at google for my most info, after 15 number of site's you soon see the (exact) same explanation and information coming up on every site you click, I thought; "just go to the library!" I was planning to do that but...it burned down yesterday night ! :banghead:
Now I was wondering, are there any scientist among you or people who have very good information about J. Watt (perhaps students at a uni who can acces special database's for info's or so)?
I'm looking for some 'funny things to know about his life' and
(most important of all) an answer to the question: "Why was his work so important for the human evolution/further scientific research ?"
As I said, I know the most common things as what he invented, when he was born,...already from google etc... But I find it quiet hard to answer on that one question. Well I have an answer, but perhaps some smart guys like you know something more you can't find on the net ?!
Cheers and thanks ahead,
GC
And yes, that's what he did, he actually did not invent the steaming machine, but he just upgraded it so it would have a higher 'remendement', making it possible to use in boats (e.g the well known "mississipi river boats"; American civil war), use in trains, machines for factories,.. and he took a patent on thàt, but someone else made the steaming machine 1st, so our history books are actually wrong ! (ah feels good to say 
