English?
On page 17 of the 2006 edition of North American Coins & Prices Alan Herbert
writes that James Watt was English and that he invented the steam engine.
He was Scottish not English, he didn't invent the steam engine but he did
improve it so that it could actually be put to use powering factories etc.
Billy
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