PCM 13 Fifth and Sixth Class (page 1)

The Story of James Cut the pictures out and put them in order

Watt did not attend school regularly When he was eighteen, Watt because of ill health. He 19 January 1736 James travelled to to study was taught at home by In 1757 Watt set up a small Watt was born in the mathematical instrument- his mother and father. workshop at Scottish town of making for a year. He His mother taught him returned to to set University repairing how to read and draw. up his own business making mathematical instruments. His father taught him and repairing mathematical maths and how to use instruments. tools.

Between 1776 – 1881 Watt’s James Watt made first steam were improvements to the steam In May 1765 Watt installed and working in coal that were very improved the design and tin mines. They were important. Steam engines In 1759 Watt began to of the . used to pump the water allowed lots of tasks, which experiment with steam But, he did not have out of the mine so that the would otherwise have been engines. enough money to mine workers could collect done by hand, to be done make a real model material from deep under the by . This made that he could test. ground. Soon Watt’s pump manufacturing quicker in was in almost all the mines in factories, and made more and Scotland. coal and tin available from mines than ever before. PCM 13 Fifth and Sixth Class (page 2)

The Story of James Watt Cut the pictures out and put them in order

Steam engines at this time Before the Coal and tin mining had for and today use fossil fuels as When James Watt started of the steam engine a long time been important an energy source. Burning to sell his steam engine he everything was made by industries of Great Britain. the coal, heats water to told farmers and miners hand, such as production Men and women carried out boiling point, and this that it could give more of food, clothing, and the coal or tin ore from the creates steam. This steam than a horse. He said homes. Cattle and horses mine in buckets, by winding is then used to power a that his machine could do were used to cultivate stairs. The deeper the mine, , which can cause the work of 1.5 horses. This the fields. Windmills and the harder it was to lift out movement (e.g. steam is where we get the term water wheels were used to the coal or tin ore. Water also trains) or today – generates today. grind corn and wheat. flooded many of the mines. electricity.

But not everyone was In the 1780’s factories in happy with Watt’s new France, Italy and America The Watt was recognized steam engine. When the placed orders for Watt’s in British as the unit of engine was put into a flour steam engine. They power in 1882. In 1960 replaced water mills which the rest of the world mill it attracted a lot of Watt died in 1819 attention. The workers stopped in the summer by adopted the Watt as the were angry and afraid they the lack of water, and in the measurement of power would loose their jobs. The winter by frost. The steam into the International flour mill was set on fire and engines in mills worked at all System of Units (SI). burned to the ground. times of day, in all weather and at all times of year.