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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page 13
... things are predicted already, is to be credited equally to the recent infusion into the Cecil family of the entirely new blood of two successive brides, daughters of commoners who made their own way in the world. One was the mother of ...
... things are predicted already, is to be credited equally to the recent infusion into the Cecil family of the entirely new blood of two successive brides, daughters of commoners who made their own way in the world. One was the mother of ...
Page 18
... things, that the verdict of one of the workmen, "Jamie has a fortune at his finger-ends," 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 ...
... things, that the verdict of one of the workmen, "Jamie has a fortune at his finger-ends," 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 ...
Page 21
... things are made contributory to it, and nothing that the devotee sees or reads, hears or feels, but some way or other is made to yield sustenance for the one great, overmastering task. "The gods send thread for a web begun," because the ...
... things are made contributory to it, and nothing that the devotee sees or reads, hears or feels, but some way or other is made to yield sustenance for the one great, overmastering task. "The gods send thread for a web begun," because the ...
Page 24
... things that he proved most useful to his employer, but there was nothing to be learned by the ambitious youth. His most intimate schoolfellow was Andrew Anderson, whose elder brother, John Anderson, was the well-known Professor of ...
... things that he proved most useful to his employer, but there was nothing to be learned by the ambitious youth. His most intimate schoolfellow was Andrew Anderson, whose elder brother, John Anderson, was the well-known Professor of ...
Page 30
... things looked darkest, even in very early years, his national hero, Wallace, came to mind, and his struggles against fearful odds, not for selfish ends, but for his country's independence. Did Wallace give up the fight, or ever think of ...
... things looked darkest, even in very early years, his national hero, Wallace, came to mind, and his struggles against fearful odds, not for selfish ends, but for his country's independence. Did Wallace give up the fight, or ever think of ...
Contents
4 | |
6 | |
26 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable altho became Birmingham Boulton and Watt Britain canal Captain character coal condenser Cornwall cylinder difficulty discovery doubt erected expansion experiments famous father fortune genius give Glasgow Glasgow University Greenock hand heart honor horse-power idea important improved invention inventor James Watt kind knew labor latent heat less letter locomotive London Lord Lord Brougham Lord Kelvin Lunar Society machine machinery manufacture mathematical instrument matter mechanical mind mother motion Muirhead Murdoch nature needed never Newcomen engine partner partnership passed patent perfect philosopher phlogiston piston pounds Priestley principle probably Professor Black proved pumping record rendered Richard Lovell Edgeworth Robison Roebuck says Scot Scotch Scotland seems skilled Soho soon steam engine stroke success things to-day trial trouble Watt and Boulton Watt engine Watt wrote Watt's day wonder workmen writes young youth