Countries, people sing the words of Burns when they sing 'Auld Lang syne ' ( the name of the song means something like 'long long ago' James Watt 1736 _1819 was born in Greenock near Glasgow and did not often go to school when he was a child :he stayed at home and his mother was his teacher .Watt was a quick thinker and he liked to build things with hi hands .He got work building things for the teachers at the University of Glasgow.There he became interested in steam engines .He began a business with his friend Mathew Boulton , and from 1794 to 1824 they msde .1,164 steam engines .These engines changed Great Britain and the world .After Watt ,the world was a different place.