James WattThe Floating Press, 2009 M08 1 - 174 pages The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the value of this invention to technological and social change - it gave us the modern world we live in today. This is his biography as written by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist. |
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Page 48
... engine, strangely discovered in his researches that the university actually owned a model of the latest type, the Newcomen engine, which had been purchased for the use of the natural philosophy class. One wonders how many of the ...
... engine, strangely discovered in his researches that the university actually owned a model of the latest type, the Newcomen engine, which had been purchased for the use of the natural philosophy class. One wonders how many of the ...
Page 49
... Engine" in the "Encyclopædia Britannica," ninth edition. Detailed accounts of Watt's numerous experiments, failures ... Newcomen model arrived 49.
... Engine" in the "Encyclopædia Britannica," ninth edition. Detailed accounts of Watt's numerous experiments, failures ... Newcomen model arrived 49.
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Andrew Carnegie. indefatigable worker—the keystone of the arch. The Newcomen model arrived at last and was promptly ... engine stopped. Smiles says that exactly at the point when ordinary experimentalists would have abandoned the task ...
Andrew Carnegie. indefatigable worker—the keystone of the arch. The Newcomen model arrived at last and was promptly ... engine stopped. Smiles says that exactly at the point when ordinary experimentalists would have abandoned the task ...
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... Newcomen had done in his engine. Watt might have invented the separate condenser and ranked as a great inventor, but the spirit of enquiry was in possession of him, and he had to find out all he could about the nature of steam. His ...
... Newcomen had done in his engine. Watt might have invented the separate condenser and ranked as a great inventor, but the spirit of enquiry was in possession of him, and he had to find out all he could about the nature of steam. His ...
Page 61
... Newcomen engine impracticable for general purposes, he promptly formulated the one indispensable condition which alone met the problem, and which the successful steam-engine must possess. He abandoned all else for the time as ...
... Newcomen engine impracticable for general purposes, he promptly formulated the one indispensable condition which alone met the problem, and which the successful steam-engine must possess. He abandoned all else for the time as ...
Contents
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Chapter IV Partnership with Roebuck | 73 |
Chapter V Boulton Partnership | 93 |
Chapter VI Removal to Birmingham | 129 |
Chapter VII Second Patent | 171 |
Chapter VIII The Record of the Steam Engine | 221 |
Chapter IX Watt in Old Age | 238 |
Chapter X Watt the Inventor and Discoverer | 249 |
Chapter XI Watt the Man | 264 |
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