Sucker born every minute.
Invention of the Steam Engine, he understood it’s theory and improved his engine based on the theory prior to commercial production.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwatts.htm
“Reproducibility is the ability of a experiment or study to be accurately reproduced, or replicated, by someone else working independently. It is one of the main principles of the scientific method.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility
You just love making crap up, don’t you?
I have yet to make anything up, on any thread I've ever posted to. Sometimes I'll be mistaken. It happens to the best of us.
Watt's insight is NOT a scientific theory. It is an engineering modification. Watt's was a great and innovative tinkerer. The the SCIENCE of the steam engine was developed by Lord Kelvin.
http://digital.nls.uk/scientists/biographies/lord-kelvin/discoveries.html
As to the "reproducibilty" point, you're right. I had the terms reversed. Doesn't change the point of my argument, which is that the first criterion is the ability of the original discoverer to get the same results from his experiment multiple times, and the second is the ability of other researchers to get similar results from identical experiments.
But failure to attain the second item is NOT automatic evidence that the results of the original discovery "are a scam", or even wrong. Quite often, the "reproducing" group simply don't actually have a TRULY identical experiment.
And "sometimes" the work of the second group is itself a scam. Read up on the early MIT experiments in Cold Fusion, and how the lead researcher DELIBERATELY falsified his results.
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf