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 9
... needed for his own support." President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect, "The best heritage to which a man can be born is poverty." The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the sons of ...
... needed for his own support." President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect, "The best heritage to which a man can be born is poverty." The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the sons of ...
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... needed spark be there to enkindle: "Kings they make gods, and meaner subjects kings." We have another story of Watt's childhood that proclaims the coming man. Precocious children are said rarely to develop far in later years, but Watt ...
... needed spark be there to enkindle: "Kings they make gods, and meaner subjects kings." We have another story of Watt's childhood that proclaims the coming man. Precocious children are said rarely to develop far in later years, but Watt ...
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... needed word of recommendation, which gave a start or a lift upward to a dearly-cherished schoolfellow. It seems a grave mistake for parents not to educate their sons in the region of home, or in later years in colleges and universities ...
... needed word of recommendation, which gave a start or a lift upward to a dearly-cherished schoolfellow. It seems a grave mistake for parents not to educate their sons in the region of home, or in later years in colleges and universities ...
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... needed , opportunity to speak , through results , for itself . So London was determined upon . Fortunately , a distant relative of the Watt family , a sea - captain , was about to set forth upon that then long and toilsome journey ...
... needed , opportunity to speak , through results , for itself . So London was determined upon . Fortunately , a distant relative of the Watt family , a sea - captain , was about to set forth upon that then long and toilsome journey ...
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... needed by, and good for, both. There is the higgling of the market in all business. As long as this valuable quality of honest pride in one's work exists, and finds deserved recognition, society has nothing to fear from the ranks of ...
... needed by, and good for, both. There is the higgling of the market in all business. As long as this valuable quality of honest pride in one's work exists, and finds deserved recognition, society has nothing to fear from the ranks of ...
Contents
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Chapter III Captured by Steam | 48 |
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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