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Personal details and public facts.
- Profession
- Inventor
- Died
- Aug 25, 1819
- Zodiac
- Capricorn
- Born in
- GreenockScotland
- About
- Scientist and entrepreneur who popularized the first steam engines, which had an integral effect on the course of the Industrial Revolution. He also developed the term horsepower as a measurement of power and the SI unit of power is named after him because of it.
- Family
- His father was a prominent mathematician and served as the town's treasurer. James was married to his second wife, Ann MacGregor, from 1777 to 1819 and he had a total of four children named Gregory, Margaret, Janet and James Jr.
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