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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... 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.
... 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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... record in the three generations of the Watts, great-grandfather, grandfather and father, all able and successful men ... records unstained. So much for the male branch of the family tree, but this is only half. What of that of the ...
... record in the three generations of the Watts, great-grandfather, grandfather and father, all able and successful men ... records unstained. So much for the male branch of the family tree, but this is only half. What of that of the ...
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... record of the Cecils, for instance, to find that the present Marquis has less than one four-thousandth part of the ... records of three marriages. Our Watt, therefore, had but one-eighth of the original Watt strain; seven-eighths being ...
... record of the Cecils, for instance, to find that the present Marquis has less than one four-thousandth part of the ... records of three marriages. Our Watt, therefore, had but one-eighth of the original Watt strain; seven-eighths being ...
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... records. Much is revealed of his musings and inward development in the account of a visit which he paid to his grandmother Muirhead in Glasgow, when it was thought that a change would benefit the delicate boy. We read with pleasant ...
... records. Much is revealed of his musings and inward development in the account of a visit which he paid to his grandmother Muirhead in Glasgow, when it was thought that a change would benefit the delicate boy. We read with pleasant ...
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... record that he never had met and conversed with a man who could not tell him something he did not know. Watt seems to have resembled Sir Walter, "who spoke to every man he met as if he were a brother"—as indeed he was—one of the many ...
... record that he never had met and conversed with a man who could not tell him something he did not know. Watt seems to have resembled Sir Walter, "who spoke to every man he met as if he were a brother"—as indeed he was—one of the many ...
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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