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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: English surveyors, Scottish surveyors, James Watt, David Thompson, William Petty, William Roy, Charles Warren, Charles Sturt, William Dawes, Thomas Mitchell, William James, Ralph Agas, John Walker, Robert Bald, Hercules Linton, Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson, Jonas Moore, Edward Nicholas Kendall, Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal, Robert Hoddle, Benjamin Outram, William Leybourn, William Bald, Edward Skoyles, Christopher Crabb Creeke, Charles Grimes, John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Martin Hotine, Charles Bressey, Thomas Drummond, Robert H. B. Brazier, William Mudge, John Charles Darke, Samuel Holland, Charles Mason, G. A. Beazeley, John Wood, John Phillips, Charles Vallancey, Sir Philip Stott, 1st Baronet, Thomas Brunner, Alastair Macdonald, Thomas Elliot Harrison, Thomas Hornor, Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Jeremiah Dixon, Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele, Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, Marianne Suhr, David Low, William Laxton, Colin Mackenzie, Pat Clayton, Timothy Pont, Frederic Alonzo Carrington, Cliff L'Aimable, John Jeremiah Bigsby, Thomas Carey, Benjamin Cole, Judge Fulton, Cater Rand, William Romaine Govett, John Kirby, Robert Gledden, Thomas Henry Tizard, Thomas Grainger, William Haywood, Woodbine Parish, Richard Cowling Taylor, James Blackburn, Thomas Laurie, Michael Cobb, George Buchanan, Thomas George Montgomerie, William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury, Colin Thornton-Kemsley, Robert Adams, Thomas Renny-Tailyour, Robert Bell, Robert Reid, Barry Woodroffe, Charles Baker, John Adair, Nicol Hugh Baird, Joseph Nutt, Bath City Surveyor, George Tod. Excerpt: James Watt, FRS, FRSE (19 January 1736 - 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Ki...
