Watt Patents His Separate Condenser
1769
Four years after his Glasgow Green insight, Watt finally filed the patent that would define steam power: a condenser separate from the cylinder. Commercialization would take another decade and Matthew Boulton's Birmingham money. But from this scrap of paper, factories would rise across Britain, and Manchester would grow a cotton skin.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.