26 mayo 1765 año - During a stroll in the park "on a fine Sabbath
afternoon" at Glasgow Green, Scottish engineer
James Watt receives the inspiration that
provides the breakthrough in his development
of the steam engine
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He recounts later that "The idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder... I had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind."
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