NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Watt, James, 1736-1819 NRA: Watt James (1736-1819) Engineer DNB: Watt, James (1736-1819), engineer and scientist LBT ID: JaWatt1819 VIAF ID: 22269445 LOC ID: n50034930 | B/BAP: 1736-01-19 DIED: 1819-08-25 |
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Scottish inventor of the steam engine patented in 1769. | |
REFERENCES TO James Watt: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 8 January 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 4 Sir Walter Scott to Alan Cunningham, 14 November 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 11 June 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 12 October 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1815 Found 1:
¶ 30 Chapter IV 1821 Found 1:
¶ n1 Chapter XII Found 1:
¶ 42 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early
Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1:
¶ 23 Chapter VII Found 1:
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