James Watt

Author : Ben Russell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780234023
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt written by Ben Russell and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt (1736–1819) is best known for his pioneering work on the steam engine that became fundamental to the incredible changes and developments wrought by the Industrial Revolution. But in this new biography, Ben Russell tells a much bigger, richer story, peering over Watt’s shoulder to more fully explore the processes he used and how his ephemeral ideas were transformed into tangible artifacts. Over the course of the book, Russell reveals as much about the life of James Watt as he does a history of Britain’s early industrial transformation and the birth of professional engineering. To record this fascinating narrative, Russell draws on a wide range of resources—from archival material to three-dimensional objects to scholarship in a diversity of fields from ceramics to antique machine-making. He explores Watt’s early years and interest in chemistry and examines Watt’s partnership with Matthew Boulton, with whom he would become a successful and wealthy man. In addition to discussing Watt’s work and incredible contributions that changed societies around the world, Russell looks at Britain’s early industrial transformation. Published in association with the Science Museum London, and with seventy illustrations, James Watt is not only an intriguing exploration of the engineer’s life, but also an illuminating journey into the broader practices of invention in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Published in association with the Science Museum, London

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822945581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Legend of James Watt written by David Philip Miller and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317314050
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt, Chemist written by David Philip Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.

Author : H. W. Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110801223X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt written by H. W. Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1936 study of the life and work of Watt places his achievements in the context of the Industrial Revolution.

Author : Anna Sproule
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567113389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt written by Anna Sproule and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.

Author : James P. Muirhead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt written by James P. Muirhead and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : René Schils
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461408598
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How James Watt Invented the Copier written by René Schils and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history... Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justice to the versatility of many scientists who also earned a reputation in other areas of science. James Watt, for instance, is known for inventing the steam engine, yet most people do not know that he also invented the copier. Alexander Graham Bell of course invented the telephone, but only few know that he invented artificial breathing equipment, a prototype of the ‘iron lung’. Edmond Halley, whose name is associated with the comet that visits Earth every 75 years, produced the first mortality tables, used for life insurances. This entertaining book is aimed at anyone who enjoys reading about inventions and discoveries by the most creative minds. Detailed illustrations of the forgotten designs and ideas enrich the work throughout.

Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt written by Andrew Carnegie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Marsden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231131728
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watt's Perfect Engine written by Ben Marsden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life of scientist James Watt, inventor of the separate-condenser steam engine, and focuses on re-discovering steam, types of steam engines, manufacturing and marketing a steam engine.

Author : Malcolm Dick
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789625041
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt (1736-1819) written by Malcolm Dick and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Watt is celebrated as the inventor of the energy efficient pumping and rotative steam engines. Studies of Watt have focused on his inventiveness, influence and reputation. This book explores new aspects of his work and places him in family, social and intellectual contexts during the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.