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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... of the most delicate instruments. He built shops at the back of his house, and such were the demands upon him that he was able to keep a number of men, sometimes as many as fourteen, constantly at work. Like his father, he became a man 8.
... of the most delicate instruments. He built shops at the back of his house, and such were the demands upon him that he was able to keep a number of men, sometimes as many as fourteen, constantly at work. Like his father, he became a man 8.
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Andrew Carnegie. constantly at work. Like his father, he became a man of position and influence in the community, and was universally esteemed. Prosperity attended him until after the birth of his famous son. The loss of a valuable ship ...
Andrew Carnegie. constantly at work. Like his father, he became a man of position and influence in the community, and was universally esteemed. Prosperity attended him until after the birth of his famous son. The loss of a valuable ship ...
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... a very kind heart and all the sensibility and enthusiasm of the Celt, easily touched to fine issues. She was a Scot of the Scots and a storehouse of border lore, as became a daughter of her house, Muirhead of Lachop. Here, then, we 13.
... a very kind heart and all the sensibility and enthusiasm of the Celt, easily touched to fine issues. She was a Scot of the Scots and a storehouse of border lore, as became a daughter of her house, Muirhead of Lachop. Here, then, we 13.
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... became noted in after life. He was rated as a backward scholar at school, and his education was considered very much neglected. Let it not be thought, however, that the lad was not being educated in some very important departments. The ...
... became noted in after life. He was rated as a backward scholar at school, and his education was considered very much neglected. Let it not be thought, however, that the lad was not being educated in some very important departments. The ...
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... became a common saying among them. The most complicated work seemed to come naturally to him. One model after another was produced to the wonder and delight of his older fellow-workmen. Jamie was the pride of the shop, and no doubt of ...
... became a common saying among them. The most complicated work seemed to come naturally to him. One model after another was produced to the wonder and delight of his older fellow-workmen. Jamie was the pride of the shop, and no doubt of ...
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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