Steam Engineering 

In engineering Scotland had invented several things. Ex

Steam engine, which was invented by James Watt, it was invented in the eighteenth century in the same time as the Industrial Revolution.  Soon a man called George Stephenson took his idea to a new stage and invented the steam locomotive.

The idea of steam engine goes back to the first century where a greek mathematician (Hero of Alexandria), where he invented a steam turbine. Then in 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented the first commercially successful engine.

James watt invented in 1763 an improved version of Newcomen (James engine used 75% less coal).Watt improved Newcomen engine, that it soon was the dominated steam engine.