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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
James Watt
Born: January 19, 1736
Died: August 25, 1819 (aged 83)
Bio: James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
Known for:
- The Clyde: An Artist's River
- ESSAYS ON SEVERAL CONTROVERTED
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