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Role of Open Design in EngineeringBefore I start teaching you all industrial Revolution, I have a question?. My history teacher drifted towards the chalkboard and wrote - Who invented the Steam Engine?I raised my hand promptly. Yes, Ankit. I stood up - crowd together Watt, maamYou are correct. It was the invention of Steam Engine by James Watt that changed the world and led to the industrial revolution. I gave a self-collected smile and took my seat. Boldrin and Levine mentioned in their book Against Intellectual Monopoly how James Watt got the root of allowing steam to expand and condense in separate containers while repairing a small Newcomen steam engine. In 1768, he applied for a sheer on the idea after doing a series of improvements. He pass the next six months working hard to obtain his patent, made an bail bond with the rich industrialist Matthew Boulton and even secured an act of Parliament extending his patent until the year 1800. In the name of economic freedom, the great statesman Edmund Burke spoke eloquently in Parliament against the creation of this unnecessary ...