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  • James Watt
    In James Watt: The Watt engine

    …inventive powers, he patented the double-acting engine, in which the piston pushed as well as pulled. The engine required a new method of rigidly connecting the piston to the beam. He solved that problem in 1784 with his invention of the parallel motion—an arrangement of connected rods that guided the…

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