James Watt Research Paper

“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?’(Gustave Eiffel) Gustave Eiffel and James Watt as well as many other engineers, have changed the world we live in by the structures they have designed and the inventions that they have built. Both Gustave Eiffel and James Watt have impacted the world in many different ways from their knowledge, research in different fields, and creations and or inventions that have changed the world (“Gustave”). Gustave Eiffel and James Watt both grew up being very good in math and engineering which

Most of James Watt’s career was working on steam engines. He patented a new design and other improvements to a Newcomen’s Engine and owned one of the most important patents in human history. He worked with Mathew Boulton who owned an engineering works in Birmingham. James Watt also patented several other important inventions such as the rotary engine, the double action engine and steam engine indicator. Gustave Eiffel worked mostly on bridges throughout his career. He also owned his own business in 1866 working on iron bridges. He created many different bridges that he is well known and also a few other different structures that he designed and created. During his career Eiffel was hired to work on the Statue of Liberty after the initial engineer, Eugene Viollet-Duc, died without warning. He created a new support system that would rely on a skeptical structure instead of weight to support the copper skin for the statue. Gustave Eiffel is most famous for what would become known as the Eiffel Tower (“BBC”;

Gustave Eiffel impacted engineering from more of an architectural stand point. Eiffel hade crated a new support system that had never been seen before using skeptical structure instead of weight based. He also created the Eiffel tower, which was named after him, and was the world’s tallest tower and only took two years to build. He also designed the Eiffel Tower to withstand with pressure and if the tower were to be melted down the towers metal would only fill up its base about two and a half inches deep. Eiffel’s work on the tower also influenced him to do more research in the field of aerodynamics. He had written several books on aerodynamics and influenced some of the world’s first aviators, including the Wright Brothers. James Watt on the other hand has impacted the world mostly from his inventions, most commonly known for his work on the steam engine. He was shocked from how little work the Newcomen’s Steam Engine was able to do and worked to improve it. After two years of experimenting and thinking he finally realized the problem with the engine and by 1765 he had his first small scale steam engine built and by 1769, he had his new engine patented. Watts’s new steam engine had changed the world and had become a big part of the industrial revolution (“Gustave”;