Reid Kerr College is due to merge with Clydebank College and James Watt College.

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James Watt invented the modern steam engine, doubling the efficiency of the engines that had come before.

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This features Matthew Boulton and James Watt who were most celebrated for bringing the steam engine into the textile manufacturing process.

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When James Watt died in 1819, a statue of him was erected in Westminster Abbey and later moved to St.

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"The effect would be fairly catastrophic, " says James Watt, head of Asian Art at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Indeed, China had built a form of steam engine before James Watt.

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Staff and students at James Watt, Reid Kerr and Clydebank Colleges have until the end of October to make comments on the planned merger.

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They were joined on occasions by James Watt, the engineer who fine-tuned the steam engine, and Joseph Priestley, a burning radical who discovered oxygen.

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The aim is to build 2, 500 waterside homes, leisure facilities, hotels, shops and a new campus for James Watt College, to replace the old shipyards and sugar warehouses of Clydeside.

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Does the name James Watt ring a bell?

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