Innealtoir meicniuil agus aireagoir
Albanach
ba ea
James Watt
,
FRS
,
FRSE
(
19 Eanair
1736
?
25 Lunasa
1819
). Dhear se inneall gaile a bhi an-tabhachtach sa
Reabhloid Thionsclaioch
i Riocht na Breataine Moire agus ar fud an domhain.
Dealbh i
Leeds
.
Saolaiodh James Watt ar an 19 Eanair 1736 sa Ghrianaig (Greenock), i
Renfrewshire
.
Saor bad
, uineir bad agus conraitheoir a bhi ina athair, agus ba e baillie an bhaile e. Agnes Muirhead an t-ainm a bhi ar a mhathair. Preispiteirigh agus Cunantoiri ba ea iad. Thomas Watt an t-ainm a bhi ar sheanathair James: muinteoir matamaitice agus baillie a bhi ann. Ar dtus fuair James og an chuid is mo da oideachas ona mhathair sa bhaile, ach ina dhiaidh sin d'fhreastail se ar scoil ghramadai an bhaile.
[1]
D'eirigh go maith leis sa
matamaitic
, ce nach raibh moran suime aige i
Laidin
na
Sean-Ghreigis
.
Phos se a chol ceathrair Margaret Miller sa bhliain 1764. Saolaiodh cuigear clainne doibh, ach fuair si bas sa bhliain 1772. Phos se Ann McGregor as Glaschu sa bhliain cuig bliana ina dhiaidh sin: cailleadh sa bhliain 1832 i. Bhi Watt fein marbh faoin am sin: fuair se bas ar an 25 Lunasa 1819 ina theach, "Heathfield", i
Handsworth
,
Birmingham
,
Sasana
in aois 83 bliain do.
Dealbh in Chamberlain Square, in aice Birmingham Central Library
An teacht is mo a thuill clu do na a inneall gaile nua. Bhi inneall gaile Newcomen ann cheana fein, ach d'fheabhsaigh Watt go mor e. Bhi rol larnach ag inneall Watt sa Reabhloid Thionsclaioch agus mar sin is mor an tionchar a bhi aige ar stair an domhain uile.
Ba fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
agus Fellow of the
Royal Society of London
e. Ball den Batavian Society a bhi ann, agus duine den ochtar eachtrannach a bhi ina mbaill den
Academie des sciences
.
Usaidtear an tearma
watt
no vata in omos do.
Scriobh an t-urscealai Sasanach
Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963); "To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stephenson were part inventors of time."
James Watt Memorial College
sa Ghrianaig
Ta dealbh ollmhor le
Francis Legatt Chantrey
le fail in
St. Paul's Cathedral
, ar a bhfuil scriofa:
Dealbh Chantrey
“
|
- NOT TO PERPETUATE A NAME,
- WHICH MUST ENDURE WHILE THE PEACEFUL ARTS FLOURISH,
- BUT TO SHOW
- THAT MANKIND HAVE LEARNED TO HONOUR THOSE
- WHO BEST DESERVE THEIR GRATITUDE,
- THE KING,
- HIS MINISTERS, AND MANY OF THE NOBLES
- AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM
- RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO
- JAMES WATT
- WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS
- EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH
- TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF
- THE STEAM-ENGINE
- ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY
- INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN
- AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE
- AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE
- AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD
- BORN AT GREENOCK MDCCXXXVI
- DIED AT HEATHFIELD IN STAFFORDSHIRE MDCCCXIX
|
”
|
Ar an 29 Bealtaine 2009, d'fhogair an
Bank of England
go mbeadh Watt agus
Matthew Boulton
ar an nota £50 nua.
[2]
- "Some Unpublished Letters of James Watt" in
Journal of
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
(London, 1915).
- Carnegie, Andrew
,
James Watt
University Press of the Pacific (2001) (Reprinted from the 1913 ed.),
ISBN 0-89875-578-6
.
- Dickenson, H. W. (1935). "James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer". Cambridge University Press.
- H. W. Dickinson and
Hugh Pembroke Vowles
James Watt and the Industrial Revolution
(published in 1943, new edition 1948 and reprinted in 1949. Also published in Spanish and Portuguese (1944) by the
British Council
)
- Hills, Rev. Dr. Richard L.,
James Watt, Vol 1, His time in Scotland, 1736-1774
(2002); Vol 2,
The years of toil, 1775-1785
; Vol 3
Triumph through adversity 1785-1819.
Landmark Publishing Ltd,
ISBN 1-84306-045-0
.
- Hulse David K. (1999). "The early development of the steam engine": 127?152. Leamington Spa, UK: TEE Publishing.
- Hulse David K. (2001). "
The development of rotary motion by steam power
". Leamington, UK: TEE Publishing Ltd..
- Marsden, Ben.
Watt's Perfect Engine
Columbia University Press (New York, 2002)
ISBN 0-231-13172-0
.
- Muirhead, James Patrick (1854). Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt. London: John Murray.
- Muirhead, James Patrick (1858). The Life of James Watt. London: John Murray.
- Samuel Smiles
,
Lives of the Engineers
, (London, 1861-62, new edition, five volumes, 1905).
- Schofield, Robert E. (1963). "The Lunar Society, A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth Century England". Clarendon Press.
- Uglow, Jenny (2002). "
The Lunar Men
". London: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.