Inventor: James Watt
Criteria; First practical. Entrepreneur.
Birth: January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland
Death: August 19, 1819 in Heathfield, England
Nationality: Scottish
Invention: steam engine improvements in 1769
Function: noun / steam engine
Definition: An engine that converts the heat energy of pressurized steam into mechanical energy, especially one in which steam drives a piston in a closed cylinder.