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The tragic genius who helped forge modern Britain
THOSE who consider James Watt only as a practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character: he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that particular characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application.”
Thus Humphry Davy told a public meeting to discuss erecting a monument to the great Scottish engineer and scientist James Watt (1736-1819) some years after his death.
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