 The name of James Watt is invariably associated with the invention of the steam engine and with little else It is not generally known that he was also responsible for numerous other less important, but still useful contrivances Nor do many realize that one of his major discoveries belongs because of its curious origin in the chronicles of the strange and the incredible Within a few years after it was first conceived James Watt's de-mention was a commercial success and in the year 1783 It's in better was enjoying both the income and the prestige to which is great scientific contribution entitled it It came therefore is something of a surprise to dr. McCregor the pastor of the local church when what appeared at his door early once on a morning Clyde in the Wurthman's overall I'd like to claim the church steeper the church steeper. What for mr. It's an experiment. I want to try a crazy idea I got my brain and I cannot get it to do and I came by it in a crazy way What we will vote I cannot tell you know for fear you'd laugh But if you let me claim doctor and if the experiment works Why then I'll tell you the chorus story you ever heard a few moments later the inventor appeared carrying a large kettle in his hand Searched precariously at the very top of the steeple. He raised the kettle and with a sudden gesture overturned it Unable to restrain himself longer dr. McCregor ran down the porch steps and raced all the church But even before he arrived there James Watt had descended from the steeple The pastor found the famous man knee-deep in the waters of the moat shouting excitedly Dr. McGregor it worked. I stumbled on a new scheme for make an abolition your drop molten lead at a turns into gunshot Yes, dr. McCregor's church steeple proved to be the first shop tower ever used More than a century thereafter Letten shop was the chief ammunition employed in the wars of Europe and even today similar shop towers are still in operation But it is doubtful whether even their owners know the story that James Watt told dr. McCregor that same morning The strange story of what had led him to his experiment, but I do not see mr. Watt How you knew the lead would disintegrate when you dropped it I came by the idea in a queer sort of way Was in a dream a dream I a dream that kept the coming back to me next after next after me I Be standing in an open field and all of a sudden the clothes would burst in the rain. What's that beating down around me? Then I'd hold out my hand to feel the drops and to be hard on my hand like little balls of metal and I'd say to myself Hey, man, this is reigning living in drops, and that's a queer thing indeed And then I'd wake and the remembering of those drops wouldn't let me sleep again And so at last I said to myself Could it be that fallen led disintegrate as you call it and forms the shape of gunshot And so I decided to find out and I did and that's all there is to it Is a strange thing. I know how would you explain it? But neither the man of God Nor any other man since has been able to explain James Watts strange dream Had he unconsciously grasped the principle of his remarkable discovery and then projected it in the form of the rain symbol Or was the dream what he himself intimated it was a miracle a miracle incredible but true