Watt did not attend school regularly ; initially he was mostly schooled at home by his mother but later he attended Greenock grammar school.

At about the same time, James Watt proposed using screws to propel boats, although he did not use them for his steam engines.

In the same letter Boulton also secretly urged Watt to include a scheme for a steam powered carriage in his patent application, which Watt did shortly thereafter.

However, despite blocking the charter until 1812 this advantage was squandered as Boulton and Watt did not develop the gas market, or technology, and in 1814 abandoned the gas business.

Watt cites this period as critical in inspiring his post-Minutemen career saying, " The first thing I did was Thurston asked me to play bass on Evol.

The later Watt engines worked lift pumps powered by the engine stroke and it may be that later versions of the Newcomen engine did so too.

Watt and Black also collaborated in project to manufacture sodium hydroxide ; however, Black was not known to have any business interest in the process, which did not enjoy commercial success.

Watt liked the idea, but at the time there did not appear to be a pressing need for the system.

Even though he went to the same high school as D. Boon and Mike Watt he did not meet them until around 1978.

This linkage does not generate a true straight line motion, and indeed Watt did not claim it did so.

Watt increased his own majority in the 1969 election, as Liberal support declined throughout the province ( the NDP did not have a strong support base in Arthur ).

This historical Master Berthold, who would not have invented gunpowder ex nihilo, but who would rather have developed an effective recipe which opened technological possibilities and initiated the development of gunpowder warfare during the 15th century, is likened by Feldhaus to James Watt who did not so much " invent " the steam engine as improve the invention of Denis Papin to a point where its application became worthwhile.

( Watt and Teemley did not contribute to the writing.

On separate occasions, Watt did a Hellride performance on Halloween 2003 with The Secondmen drummer Jerry Trebotic substituting for Perkins, who was on a Jane's Addiction reunion tour at the time.

According to Watt, the Banu Qurayza " seem to have tried to remain neutral " in the battle but later changed their attitude when a Jew from Khaybar persuaded them that Muhammad was sure to be overwhelmed and though they did not commit any act overtly hostile to Muhammad, according to Watt, they entered into negotiations with the invading army.

Watt relates that " no important clan of Jews was left in Medina " but he and Paret also note that Muhammad did not clear all Jews out of Medina.

In June 2004 Dos did their first mini-tour in several years, doing three gigs at jazz festivals in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada, right before Watt had to fly to Europe for a tour with the reunited Stooges.

Mike Watt, as curator of the Minutemen legacy, gave the project his blessing, as did D. Boon's late father.

Watt, who named the band, did not know the correct lyric until he became a member of the Stooges himself in 2003.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

Then I say, such an engine may be made large enough to do the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work …" The idea was later used by James Watt to help market his improved steam engine.

Though others made a similar innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers.

In his retirement, Watt continued to develop new inventions though none were as significant as his steam engine work.

Boulton and Watt charged an annual payment, equal to one third of the value of the coal saved in comparison to a Newcomen engine performing the same work.

William Watt of Skaill, the local laird, began an amateur excavation of the site, but after uncovering four houses the work was abandoned in 1868.

Apart from this Murdoch does not appear to have worked much on his ideas from 1784 to 1786, because of the continuing high volume of work for Boulton and Watt, his marriage in 1785, and the birth of his and his wife's twins in the same year.

In any event without the support of Boulton and Watt, who appear to have opposed Murdoch's work due to the need to use high pressure steam which Watt distrusted, Murdoch was unable to develop or gain publicity for his invention and it was left to Trevithick and others to develop it commercially later.

The length of time taken to complete this project was partly due to experimentations and improvements in the process developed by Murdoch to make the lighting of a large factory by gas practicable and cost effective-such as purifying the gas with lime to remove the smell and determining the best temperature to heat coal to obtain the maximum quantity of gas-although Murdoch continued to be involved in other engine work for Boulton and Watt, which took up much of his time.

Donald Cameron Watt, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the London School of Economics, wrote that he admires some of Irving's work as a historian, though he rejects his conclusions about the Holocaust.

A revised and updated translation of Bower's work was produced under the leadership of Professor D. E. R. Watt, in nine volumes, published between 1977 and 1997.

In 1775, Watt designed two large engines: one for the Bloomfield Colliery at Tipton, completed in March 1776, and one for John Wilkinson's ironworks at Willey, Shropshire, which was at work the following month.

In early May 1918 US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory condemned The Finished Mystery as " one of the most dangerous examples of ... propaganda ... a work written in extremely religious language and distributed in enormous numbers ".

Noting that the play needed a lot of work, literary agent A. P. Watt sent the script to Charles Frohman who traveled to London to meet Doyle.

At the same time, Cockburn claimed that MI5 was spying on him because of The Week, but the British historian D. C. Watt argued that it was more likely that if anyone was spying on Cockburn, it was the Special Branch of Scotland Yard who were less experienced in this work than MI5.

Everything But The Girl have been on extended hiatus since 2000, while Ben Watt has concentrated on his DJ work, and Thorn has been a full-time parent and, most recently, writing and recording her solo material.

They released compilation albums in 2002 and 2005, and Watt has played on some filmed performances of Thorn's solo work and on her 2011 recording of the xx's Night Time.

* Watt second ( Ws ) or Joule, a unit of energy or work

Gibbs theorized that, analogous to the equilibrium of the simple Watt governor ( which depends on the balancing of two torques: one due to the weight of the “ balls ” and the other due to their rotation ), thermodynamic equilibrium for any work producing thermodynamic system depends on the balance of two entities.

Those in the arts include Marie Watt, a contemporary artist whose work centers on Native American themes.

Despite the group's lack of commercial success, they have been cited as an important influence in the development of alternative music in the 1980s ; Mike Watt, of the Minutemen and, more recently, Nick Cave, have cited the Pop Group as an important source of inspiration on their own work.

In an April 2011 interview, Thorn was questioned about whether she would work together with Watt, and do more Everything But The Girl.

Part Seneca, Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes.