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Author: William Rosen Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226726347 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.
Author: William Rosen Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226726347 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.
Author: Ben Marsden Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231131728 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
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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: Ben Russell Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780234023 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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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: Anna Sproule Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated ISBN: 9781567113389 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.
Author: Malcolm Dick Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1789625041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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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: David Philip Miller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317314050 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
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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.
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