Do You Know James Watt
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James Watt was a Scottish chemist, engineer and inventor in the 18th century with contribution to the work of Newcomen steam engine and more, take a quiz to learn more about Watt
Questions and Answers
- 1.
James Watt was a chemist, an engineer, and inventor who contributed to the work of Newcomen with his Watt steam engine in the year?- A.
1740
- B.
1750
- C.
1781
- D.
1791
- 2.
What initially worked as a maker of mathematical instruments, but soon became interested in steam engines. The first working steam engine was patented in the year?
- A.
1765
- B.
1666
- C.
1670
- D.
1698
- 3.
While working as an instrument maker at the university, he became interested in the technology of steam engines. Which university did he design mathematical instrument for?
- A.
Newcastle
- B.
Manchester
- C.
Luton
- D.
Glasgow
- 4.
Watt introduced a design enhancement, the separate condenser which avoided this was of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of?
- A.
Pascaline
- B.
Steam engine
- C.
Combustion engine
- D.
Hydraulic press
- 5.
Watt later made an attempt to commercialize his invention, but experienced great financial difficulties until he entered a partnership with?
- A.
Lorenzo
- B.
Blaise Pascal
- C.
Jon Bellion
- D.
Mathew Boulton
- 6.
The new partnership birthed a company called Boulton and Watt was eventually highly successful and Watt became a wealthy man, he died in the year?
- A.
1784
- B.
1819
- C.
1987
- D.
1879
- 7.
James Watt was born in 1736 in Greenlock, Renfrewshire, a seaport on the Firth of the cycle, his father was a?
- A.
Babbage
- B.
Farian
- C.
Anchor
- D.
Shipwright
- 8.
What did not attend school regularly, initially he was mostly schooled at home by his mother but later he attended?
- A.
Greenock Grammar School
- B.
Grammar School
- C.
Grange Scool
- D.
Loyola Secondary
- 9.
At age eighteen, his mother died and his father’s health to fail, Watt traveled to back London to study?
- A.
Philosophy
- B.
Tourism
- C.
Art
- D.
Music
- 10.
James Watt’s improvement to the steam engine, converted it from a prime mover of marginal efficiency into the mechanical workhouse of the?
- A.
20th century
- B.
Industrial Revolution
- C.
18th century
- D.
19th century
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