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Hace 2 días · James Watt (Greenock, Escocia, 19 de enero de 1736 – Heathfield, Inglaterra, 25 de agosto de 1819) fue un destacado inventor, ingeniero mecánico y matemático escocés, reconocido principalmente por su invención y perfeccionamiento de la máquina de vapor, un avance tecnológico crucial que revolucionó la industria y el transporte durante la Revolución Industrial.
Hace 4 días · SE2933: Statues of James Watt & John Harrison in City Square, Leeds. taken 6 days ago, near to Leeds, England. Statues of James Watt & John Harrison in City Square, Leeds. Located in front of the old General Post Office. James Watt 1736-1819 on the left, with John Harrison 1576-1656 on the right.
Hace 22 horas · Illustration. Miniature portrait of future US President James Madison in 1783, when he was a 32-year-old delegate to the Continental Congress. Watercolor on ivory, by Charles Willson Peale, 1783. This miniature was given to Catherine 'Kitty' Floyd, who Madison was courting at the time, along with a lock of Madison's hair; their relationship did ...
Hace 1 día · James Watt. Statues will be removed and restored as part of a revamp of George Square and the design would be adapted if a decision was taken to keep certain statues out of the civic space.
Hace 3 días · James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), satellite observatory designed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and launched by an Ariane 5 rocket in 2021. The JWST has a mirror 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter, seven times larger than that of the HST.
Hace 22 horas · STRIKING West College Scotland lecturers have accused the Scottish Government of failing students in Inverclyde by failing to invest in further education. Members of the local EIS-FELA branch are now set to meet MSP Stuart McMillan for talks on pay and cuts at the further education facility in Greenock after picketing outside his office last week.
Hace 22 horas · History. The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 by a charter or papal bull from Pope Nicholas V, at the suggestion of King James II, giving Bishop William Turnbull, a graduate of the University of St Andrews, permission to add a university to the city's Cathedral. It is the second-oldest university in Scotland after St Andrews and the fourth-oldest in the English-speaking world.
