Resumen de What Did James Watt Really Invent?
Everyone knows that James Watt “invented” the steam engine. Like so many other “inventors,” such as Morse, Daguerre, and Marconi, he put together a number of ideas as he developed the finished piece of technology. In this note, I will discuss his own contribution, and show how considerations of physics lay behind his work. Let me end by telling you a physics story about a simple little object in my collection of historical physics apparatus.
