Thorn's third solo album Love and Its Opposite was released in May 2010 on Ben Watt's Strange Feeling Records in the UK, and on Merge Records in the US.

The Secondman's Middle Stand was Mike Watt's third solo album and the first full-length recording that he had made under his own name since the release of Contemplating The Engine Room in 1997.

They began writing and recording their third album, Justamente Tres, not long afterward ; it would be released in 1996 in between Watt's first two solo albums.

In 2002, Mazich was asked to join Watt as organist in a new band that would record and tour behind Watt's third solo album, The Secondman's Middle Stand.

As part of the Secondmen, he played on Watt's third solo album, 2004's The Secondman's Middle Stand.

She later contributed artwork to Watt's first solo album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?.

Mascis had worked with Watt several times before-most notably producing the final fIREHOSE album Mr. Machinery Operator ( 1993 ), on which he also contributed some guitar and vocal parts, and contributing guitar and drum performances to several songs on Watt's first solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?.

Watt and Cline frequently play together as members of the improvisational jazz / punk ensemble Banyan, in between Cline's commitments with Wilco and as a solo artist, and Watt's own schedule with Iggy Pop & The Stooges and as a solo act.

Watt and Kira began recording the fourth Dos album there at this time, in between Watt's professional commitments as a solo artist and member of Iggy Pop & The Stooges and Banyan, and Kira's day job.

The Crew Of The Flying Saucer was former The Minutemen / FIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt's second touring band, formed to continue touring behind his first solo album, 1995's Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?.

Watt did work with both Cline and Meghrouni again after the Crew Of The Flying Saucer had completed its run ; Cline was the sole guitarist on Watt's second solo album Contemplating The Engine Room, and has toured and recorded with him as part of both another Watt project band, The Black Gang, and in the jazz / punk group Banyan.

Watson has joined Watt and The Secondmen's replacement drummer, Raul Morales, in a new trio, The Missingmen ; they have performed select shows in the US and Europe in between Watt's commitments with Iggy Pop & The Stooges and will be the backing musicians on Watt's forthcoming fourth solo album.

She wrote or co-wrote songs for what would be the Minutemen's final album, 3-Way Tie ( For Last ), and to Watt's post-Minutemen band Firehose.

His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat ?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians ( many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era ), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees.

The album and its supporting tour were Watt's first taste of mainstream fame, when Vedder and Dave Grohl of Nirvana were part of his touring group.

In 1997, Watt released Contemplating the Engine Room, a punk rock song cycle using naval life as an extended metaphor for both Watt's family history ( the album has a picture of his father in his Navy uniform on the cover ) and the Minutemen.

The book, printed in both English and French, contains all of Watt's song lyrics from the Minutemen era as well as the tour journal he wrote during the Minutemen's only European tour with Black Flag, essays by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Blue Öyster Cult lyricist and longtime Watt hero Richard Meltzer, and illustrations by Raymond Pettibon that had been used in all of the Minutemen's album artwork.

A song on Watt's semi-autobiographical 1997 album Contemplating the Engine Room, " The Boilerman ", is about D. Boon ; on the recording itself, guitarist Nels Cline plays one of Boon's last Telecaster guitars, which Watt is in possession of.

Formed in 2002 in Watt's hometown of San Pedro, California, the band first consisted of organist Pete Mazich and drummer Jerry Trebotic, both of whom had played with Watt in a side project, The Madonnabes, that was devoted to reinterpreting the works of Madonna ; the three musicians had also previously recorded a song for a Doctors Without Borders benefit album under the name Mike Watt & Masina in 1998, with Mazich's wife Ljil on vocals.

The Secondmen did three tours of the United States and Canada wherein they played early versions of some of the songs that were to be on the album, along with songs from Watt's back catalog and hand-picked cover versions rearranged for organ.

The storyline for the nine-track album parallel's Watt's real-life January 2000 bout with a near-fatal infection in his perineum with one of his favorite pieces of literature, Dante's The Divine Comedy.

The first three tracks of the album represent the Inferno ( Watt's illness up until the time the abscess burst ); the second three songs represent the Purgatorio ( Watt's surgery and subsequent recovery ), and the final three represent the Paradisio ( Watt's resuming his everyday life and career ).

The band's name is a humorous reference to the fact that during a 2005 European tour behind Watt's album The Secondman's Middle Stand, neither of the original Secondmen ( Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic ) were able to participate.

The album, first released in Japan in October 2010, is the first release on Watt's new independent record label Clenchedwrench.

Both of Watt's basic engine types were commercially very successful, and by 1800, the firm Boulton & Watt had constructed 496 engines, with 164 driving reciprocating pumps, 24 serving blast furnaces, and 308 powering mill machinery ; most of the engines generated from 5 to.

In the early 19th century after the expiration of Watt's patent, the steam engine underwent many improvements by a host of inventors and engineers.

The first of these was the production of sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ( James Watt's first partner ) in 1746.

Watt's critical insight, arrived at in May 1765, was to cause the steam to condense in a separate chamber apart from the piston, and to maintain the temperature of the cylinder at the same temperature as the injected steam ( by surrounding it with a " steam jacket ").

Others began to modify Newcomen engines by adding a condenser, and the mine owners in Cornwall became convinced that Watt's patent could not be enforced.

** James Watt's 1769 steam engine patent is extended to June 1800 by Act of Parliament and the first engines are built under it.

Watt's partner Matthew Boulton was so impressed by Murdoch's wooden hat, made on a lathe of his own design, that he hired him.

There is, however, a dearth of letters from Murdoch to Watt from 1780 until 1797 in the Watt archive, possibly, as argued by John Griffiths, due to an attempt by Watt's son, James Watt Junior, to uphold his father's reputation by removing any evidence of the origin of some of the inventions he patented.

In 2003, Watt's first book, Spiels Of A Minuteman, was released by the Quebec book publisher L ' Oie De Cravan.

Watt's next improvement to the Newcomen design was to increase the power of the engine by sealing the top of the cylinder and injecting low-pressure steam into the upper part of the cylinder, instead of relying on atmospheric pressure.

In order of historical emergence, they have been firearms ( small arms and artillery ); clocks ; textile machinery ; steam engines ( stationary, marine, rail, and otherwise ; the story of how Watt's need for an accurate cylinder spurred Boulton's boring machine is discussed by Roe ( 1916 )); sewing machines ; bicycles ; automobiles ; and aircraft.

It may also be drawn by a mechanical linkage in the form of Watt's linkage, with the lengths of the three bars of the linkage and the distance between its endpoints chosen to form a crossed square.

Upon completion, he entered Watt's office and threw the manuscript "... on the table with the remark: ' There is what I shall be remembered by '".

* James Watt's 1769 steam engine patent is extended to June 1800 by Act of Parliament of Great Britain and the first engines are built under it.

The latent heat of water is large compared with many other liquids, so giving impetus to James Watt's successful attempts to improve the efficiency of the steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen.

The modern Superlight employs adjustable double-wishbone suspension with front anti-roll bar and a de-dion rear axle, located by an A-frame and Watt's linkage.

The decision was denounced by some LGBT activists because of Watt's role in some other government policies that had been unpopular within the gay community.

The idea was evidently suggested by James Watt's condensing steam engine, flame being employed instead of steam to obtain a vacuum.

The memoir Patient, by the musician Ben Watt, deals with Watt's mid-1990s experience with Churg – Strauss syndrome, and his recovery.