The Life And Legend Of James Watt

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986795
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( 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 2019-04-18 with total page 469 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 : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461741661
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Author : James Patrrick Muirhead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021240149
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( 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 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Author : Nandini Saraf
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184302894
Total Pages : 147 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Times of James Watt written by Nandini Saraf and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Watt; (30 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. Watt was much honoured in his own time. In 1784 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; and was elected as a member of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy; of Rotterdam in 1787. In 1789 he was elected to the elite group; the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. In 1806 he was conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow. The French Academy elected him a Corresponding Member and he was made a Foreign Associate in 1814.

Author : James Patrick Muirhead
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375125895
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book The Life of James Watt written by James Patrick Muirhead and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-23 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Author : Neil Champion
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9781575723716
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Watt written by Neil Champion and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 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 S. Hirsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439171653
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781451017441
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book James Watt (Classic Reprint) written by Andrew Carnegie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from James Watt When the publishers asked me to write the Life of Watt, I declined, stating that my thoughts were upon other matters. This settled the question, as I supposed, but in this I was mistaken. Why shouldn't I write the Life of the maker of the steam-engine, out of which I had made fortune? Besides, I knew little of the history of the Steam Engine and of Watt him self, and the surest way to obtain knowledge was to comply with the publisher's highly complimentary request. In short, the subject would not down, and finally, I was compelled to write again, telling them that the idea haunted me, and if they still desired me to undertake it, I should do so with my heart in the task. I now know about the steam-engine, and have also had revealed to me one of the finest characters that ever graced the earth. For all this I am deeply grateful to the publishers. I am indebted to friends, Messrs. Angus Sinclair and Edward R. Cooper, for editing my notes upon Scientific and Mechanical points. The result is this volume. If the public, in reading, have one tithe of the pleasure I have had in writing it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.