Џејмс Ват — разлика између измена

Џејмс Ват је рођен [[19. јануар]]а [[1736]]. у лучком месту Гринок. <ref name="thurston-growth-steam-engine">{{Cite book|last=Thurston| first = Robert Henry| title = A history of the growth of the steam-engine| url = https://books.google.com/?id=HguRSvxVtuAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q| series = The International Scientific Series|year=1878| publisher = D. Appleton and Company| location = New York|pages=80}}</ref> Отац му је био локални бродоградитељ и бродовласник,<ref name="muuirhead-life-james-watt">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=aA5VAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q| last=Muirhead| first = James Patrick| title = The life of James Watt: with selections from his correspondence| edition = 2|year=1859| publisher = John Murray|pages=10}}</ref> а мајка, Агнес Мурхед, добро образована, потекла је из знамените породице.<ref name="klooster-icons">{{Cite book|last=Klooster| first = John W.| title = Icons of invention: the makers of the modern world from Gutenberg to Gates| url = https://books.google.com/?id=WKuG-VIwID8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q| series = Icons of invention| volume = 1|year=2009| publisher = ABC-CLIO|isbn = 978-0-313-34743-6|pages=30}}</ref> Родитељи су му били религиозни [[Презвитеријанство|презвитеријански хришћани]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carnegie| first = Andrew| title = James Watt| publisher = The Minerva Group, Inc.|pages=215|isbn = 9780898755787| url = http://www.jameswatt.info/andrew-carnegie/9-watt-in-old-age.html}}</ref> Ватов деда, Томас Ват, био је наставник математике.<ref>{{citeCite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=aA5VAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q| last=Muirhead| first = James Patrick| title = The life of James Watt: with selections from his correspondence| edition = 2|year=1859| publisher = John Murray|pages=4,7}}</ref> Упркос веома религиозном одгоју родитеља, он је касније постао деиста.<ref name="Clarendon press">{{cite book|title=James Watt and the steam engine: the memorial volume prepared for the Committee of the Watt centenary commemoration at Birmingham 1919|year=1927| publisher = Clarendon press| first = Henry Winram | last=Dickinson| first2 = Rhys | last2=Jenkins| last3=Committee of the Watt Centenary Commemoration|pages=78| quote = It is difficult to say anything as to Watt's religious belief, further than that he was a Deist.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers| url = http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/dictionary.html| publisher = Haldeman-Julius Publications | accessdate=17. 08. 2012| first = Joseph | last=McCabe|year=1945| quote = He made such improvement in the crude steam-engine that had been invented before his time that he is usually described as the inventor. "His many and most valuable inventions must always place him among the leading benefactors of mankind," says the account of him in the ''Dictionary of National Biography''. He was an accomplished man. He knew Greek, Latin, French, German and Italian and was very friendly with the great freethinking French scientists. Andrew Carnegie has written a life of him and describes him as a deist who never went to church.}}</ref>

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