James Watt by Andrew Carnegie, is a classic science and technology biography about the great Scottish inventor. James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) - 25 August 1819) 1] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain...