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== Innovations ==
[[Thinktank Birmingham - object 1950S00022(1).jpg|thumb|A 1950 model of te engine, now in [[Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum]] ]]
Watt did not invent the [[steam engine]] and there is no single '[[Watt steam engine]]' as such. He developed a number of separate innovations, each of which improved the existing engines of the day, beginning with [[Newcomen atmospheric engine|Newcomen's]]. The Lap Engine of 1788, also the [[Whitbread Engine]] (1785), represent survivors of the first engines to show all of Watt's major improvements in one.<ref name="Crowley, Lap Engine" />
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