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What was the title of James Watt’s 1769 steam-engine patent?
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James Watt
James Watt, oil painting by H. Howard; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The title of James Watt’s 1769 patent was "A New Invented Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam and Fuel in Fire Engines."1