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Spurious citation requests

Have some pity on the poor reader, who wants to be draw in by the smooth flow of our Brilliant Prose ( Wiki TM) and doesn't <clang> want <clang> a bell run in her ear for every sentence. We don't footnote the whole world of knowledge in every article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 19:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1765 Watt

You've got 1764 here, but 1765 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt#Early_experiments_with_steam (Watt's critical insight, arrived at in May 1765) for Watt's (design) invention. MBG02 (talk) 03:25, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]