A man is sitting by the canal in Smethwick, a small English town near Birmingham. It is the summer of 1795. He has been struggling with the steam engine for many years, almost his entire life. Now he and Matthew Boulton are building a steam engine factory. At last they will start production of steam engines in large numbers. In January he will celebrate his 60^thbirthday. The world's first heavy engineering factory will be in place by then. James Watt can almost see it's reflection in the water. He can sense it. History is on its way to change.