1275467 Portrait of James Watt. c.1788 (coloured litho.) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: James Watt, FRS, FRSE (1736 - 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. ); Prismatic Pictures ; English, out of copyright.