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 40
... Professor of natural philosophy, knowing of Watt's skill from his first ... Professors to his aid, several of whom he had met and impressed most favorably ... Black, discoverer of latent heat; Robinson, Dick of whom we have spoken, and ...
... Professor of natural philosophy, knowing of Watt's skill from his first ... Professors to his aid, several of whom he had met and impressed most favorably ... Black, discoverer of latent heat; Robinson, Dick of whom we have spoken, and ...
Page 41
... Professor Black, and the successful operation of telegraph cables by its Professor and present Lord Chancellor (Lord Kelvin). May the future of Glasgow University copy fair her glorious past! Her "atmosphere" favors and stimulates ...
... Professor Black, and the successful operation of telegraph cables by its Professor and present Lord Chancellor (Lord Kelvin). May the future of Glasgow University copy fair her glorious past! Her "atmosphere" favors and stimulates ...
Page 43
... faculty in favor of struggling genius. Business was not prosperous at first with Watt, his instruments proving slow ... Black, who, like Professor Dick, had known of Watt's talent, one day asked him if he couldn't make an organ for him ...
... faculty in favor of struggling genius. Business was not prosperous at first with Watt, his instruments proving slow ... Black, who, like Professor Dick, had known of Watt's talent, one day asked him if he couldn't make an organ for him ...
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... Professor Black. Watt found that water converted into steam heated five times its own weight of water to steam heat. He says: Being struck with this remarkable fact (effect of latent heat), and not understanding the reason of it, I ...
... Professor Black. Watt found that water converted into steam heated five times its own weight of water to steam heat. He says: Being struck with this remarkable fact (effect of latent heat), and not understanding the reason of it, I ...
Page 51
... Professor's classes, and some years before the former stumbled upon the fact, the theory had been announced by Black, but had apparently attracted little attention. This episode reminds us of the advantages Watt had in his surroundings ...
... Professor's classes, and some years before the former stumbled upon the fact, the theory had been announced by Black, but had apparently attracted little attention. This episode reminds us of the advantages Watt had in his surroundings ...
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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