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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... workmen— a wise and epoch-making gift, for young Watt soon revealed such wonderful manual dexterity, and could do such astonishing things, that the verdict of one of the workmen, "Jamie has a fortune at his finger-ends," became a common ...
... workmen— a wise and epoch-making gift, for young Watt soon revealed such wonderful manual dexterity, and could do such astonishing things, that the verdict of one of the workmen, "Jamie has a fortune at his finger-ends," became a common ...
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... workmen as they experienced the crudeness of existing methods. Indeed, few important inventions have come from those who have not been thus employed. It is with inventors as with poets; few have been born to the purple or with silver ...
... workmen as they experienced the crudeness of existing methods. Indeed, few important inventions have come from those who have not been thus employed. It is with inventors as with poets; few have been born to the purple or with silver ...
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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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