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James Watt and the celebration of innovation

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· After his death, Watt became a secular saint who was presented as a determined, persistent and enlightened hero who brought numerous blessings to mankind through his improvements to steam technology. James Eckford Lauder’s painting of 1855, ‘James Watt and the Steam Engine – The Dawn of the Nineteenth Century’, epitomises this vision.
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