The Man Who Made the Industrial Revolution Possible | James Watt

If you want to help support the channel, check out our Patreon: In the late 1700s, the world was on the cusp of a new age, an industrial revolution, the water wheels and windmills wouldn’t be enough to propel the biggest economies on the planet into this new age. They needed to find an artificial power to grow the production of their mines, factories, and mills. The solution would come in the form of James Watt, a man who felt destined to become a navigation tool craftsmith, but upon discovering the inefficiencies with the very first steam engines, knew that he could make it better, becoming one of the most impactful engineers that helped thrust England’s technological and economic progress into the future. This is the story of James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. Sources [1] [2] ~lira/supp/steam/ [3]