{"slug": "james-watt", "label": "James Watt", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9041", "qid": "Q9041", "description": "British engineer (1736–1819)", "entries": 14, "years": 10, "span": [1728, 1819], "span_label": ["1728 CE", "1819 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 9}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-great-britain", "label": "Kingdom of Great Britain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "parliament-of-great-britain", "label": "Parliament of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parliament-of-the-united-kingdom", "label": "Parliament of the United Kingdom", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3 – Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer, lifelong key partner of James Watt (d. 1809)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#Births", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559528#Births", "title": "1736", "revid": 1360559528, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 19", "text": "19 January – James Watt, Scottish inventor (died 1819)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307867332#Births", "title": "1736 in Great Britain", "revid": 1307867332, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1757, "year_label": "1757 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Macfarlane Observatory established at the University of Glasgow; its instruments are set up by James Watt in his new capacity as the university's instrument maker.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738562#Events", "title": "1757 in Scotland", "revid": 1353738562, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May", "text": "May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser, an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738634#Events", "title": "1765 in Scotland", "revid": 1353738634, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – During a stroll in the park \"on a fine Sabbath afternoon\" at Glasgow Green, Scottish engineer James Watt receives the inspiration that provides the breakthrough in his development of the steam engine; he recounts later that \"The idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder... I had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373039097#April–June", "title": "1765", "revid": 1373039097, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 29", "text": "April 29 – Scottish inventor James Watt is granted a British patent for \"A method of lessening the consumption of steam in steam engines\" – the separate condenser, a key improvement (first devised by Watt in 1765) and the basis for the Watt steam engine which stimulates the Industrial Revolution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354215144#April–June", "title": "1769", "revid": 1354215144, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1769, "year_label": "1769 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 29", "text": "29 April – James Watt is granted a British patent for \"A method of lessening the consumption of steam in steam engines\" – the separate condenser, a key improvement (first devised by Watt in 1765 in Glasgow) which stimulates the Industrial Revolution. In September he completes a full-size experimental engine at Kinneil House.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362254161#Events", "title": "1769 in Scotland", "revid": 1362254161, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "James Watt's 1769 steam engine patent is extended to June 1800 by Act of Parliament and the first engines are built under it.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#Date_unknown", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1780, "year_label": "1780 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 31", "text": "31 May – James Watt patents a copying machine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362263360#Events", "title": "1780 in Scotland", "revid": 1362263360, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The British Parliament extends James Watt's patent for the steam engine to the year 1800.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370562345#Date_unknown", "title": "1782", "revid": 1370562345, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Parliament extends James Watt's patent for the steam engine to the year 1800.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363776945#Undated", "title": "1782 in Great Britain", "revid": 1363776945, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Kennetpans Distillery begins to operate a condensing rotative stationary steam engine designed by James Watt, the first in Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738950#Events", "title": "1787 in Scotland", "revid": 1353738950, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 25", "text": "August 25 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355822452#July–December", "title": "1819", "revid": 1355822452, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}]}