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  1. James Watt, whose steam engine was a huge improvement on the Newcomen steam engine (James Watt did not actually invent the steam engine, as I was taught in elementary school), was born January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His invention played an important role in launching the industrial revolution, but not, I think, the American and French revolutions.

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