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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... - Second Patent Chapter VIII - The Record of the Steam Engine Chapter IX - Watt in Old Age Chapter X - Watt, the Inventor and Discoverer Chapter XI - Watt, the Man Preface * When the publishers asked me to write the 3 Contents.
... - Second Patent Chapter VIII - The Record of the Steam Engine Chapter IX - Watt in Old Age Chapter X - Watt, the Inventor and Discoverer Chapter XI - Watt, the Man Preface * When the publishers asked me to write the 3 Contents.
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... inventor, followed in his father's footsteps, after his father's death, as shipwright, contractor, provider, etc., becoming famous for his skill in the making of the most delicate instruments. He built shops at the back of his house ...
... inventor, followed in his father's footsteps, after his father's death, as shipwright, contractor, provider, etc., becoming famous for his skill in the making of the most delicate instruments. He built shops at the back of his house ...
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... inventor. His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind. Many of the most delicate parts ...
... inventor. His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind. Many of the most delicate parts ...
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... inventor would have been content with what was already known, and utilised such knowledge, as 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 ...
... inventor would have been content with what was already known, and utilised such knowledge, as 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 ...
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... inventor not overshadowed all his work. This part of Watt's work has been so little known that it is almost imperative to-day to give some idea of it to the general reader. Suppose you take a flask, such as olive oil is often sold in ...
... inventor not overshadowed all his work. This part of Watt's work has been so little known that it is almost imperative to-day to give some idea of it to the general reader. Suppose you take a flask, such as olive oil is often sold in ...
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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