The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.

法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。

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His biographies of James Watt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life.

他写的关于詹姆斯·瓦特、理查德·阿克赖特和约西亚·韦奇伍德的传记被奉为是指引工人们度过艰难生活的灯塔。

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In the late 1700s James Watt designed an efficient and commercially viable steam engine that was soon applied to a variety of industrial uses as it became cheaper to use.

18世纪晚期，詹姆斯·瓦特设计了一种高效的、商业上可行的蒸汽机，随着它的使用成本越来越低，它很快被应用于各种工业用途。

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Reid Kerr College is due to merge with Clydebank College and James Watt College.

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James Watt invented the modern steam engine, doubling the efficiency of the engines that had come before.

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This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.

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