Watt (surname)

Watt
Origin
MeaningOld High German walt ("power")

Watt is a Scottish surname, deriving from the Old High German word walt, meaning "power". The watt unit of power is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish engineer whose invention of the Watt steam engine in 1776 was the driving force of the Industrial Revolution.

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