In 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Va. In 1809, author Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston. In 1853, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiered in Rome. In ...

James Watt, a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, is known for his improvements to the steam engine James Watt, a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, is known for his improvements to the ...

It was an epoch-defining decision to place in Westminster Abbey, among statues of monarchs, priests and poets, a large one of James Watt, inventor of the separate-condenser steam engine. The statue’s ...

When the British inventor James Watt died in 1819, his house near Birmingham remained undisturbed for a century. "It was sealed up and left as a place of pilgrimage," says James Miller, deputy ...

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