1. James Watt didn't actually invent the steam engine, he just refined it.

2. James Watt was born on 19 January 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, a seaport on the Firth of Clyde.

3. The secretary of the interior, James Watt, has set about scuttling the environmental protections for plants, animals, air, water and soil —and for people.

4. A student of electricity soon learns that the electrical units of power, pressure, current and resistance come from the names of James Watt, a Scottish engineer, Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, the French scientist Ampère and the German Georg Ohm.

5. The beginning of the industrial revolution is usually associated with 18th century English textile industry, with the invention of flying shuttle by John Kay in 1733, the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves in 1765, the water frame by Richard Arkwright in 1769 and the steam engine by James Watt in 1765.