Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire James Watt's steam engine The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

These early steam engines produced a vacuum to generate power and were commonly used for pumping water out of mines. In 1763 James Watt was repairing a model of a Newcomen engine. He developed ...

The engine was built around the time of Watt's death in 1819 and it was moved to the site in 1839-40. James Watt's inventions meant that the steam engine became much more economical to use and ...