Author: Ben Russell
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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
James Watt
Author: Ben Russell
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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
James Watt (1736-1819)
Author: Malcolm Dick
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789625041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789625041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
The Power to Change the World
Author: Malcolm Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905036561
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
James Watt (1736-1819) transformed the steam engine - the most significant invention of the Industrial Revolution. Without Watt there would have been no locomotives, steamships or factories where machines were energised by coal. Watt was, however, much more - a scientist who also developed the concept of horsepower, made the first commercial copying machine and gave his name to a unit of power - the Watt.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905036561
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
James Watt (1736-1819) transformed the steam engine - the most significant invention of the Industrial Revolution. Without Watt there would have been no locomotives, steamships or factories where machines were energised by coal. Watt was, however, much more - a scientist who also developed the concept of horsepower, made the first commercial copying machine and gave his name to a unit of power - the Watt.
The Lunar Men
Author: Jennifer S. Uglow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met in the English Midlands. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men changed the face of England. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge that drove these extraordinary men.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met in the English Midlands. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men changed the face of England. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge that drove these extraordinary men.
Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science
Author: Marco Ceccarelli
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401789479
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book is composed of chapters that focus specifically on technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). Biographies of well-known scientists are also included to describe their efforts and experiences and surveys of their work and achievements and a modern interpretation of their legacy are presented. After the first two volumes, the papers in this third volume again cover a wide range within the field of the History of Mechanical Engineering with specific focus on MMS and will be of interest and motivation to the work (historical or not) of many.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401789479
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book is composed of chapters that focus specifically on technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). Biographies of well-known scientists are also included to describe their efforts and experiences and surveys of their work and achievements and a modern interpretation of their legacy are presented. After the first two volumes, the papers in this third volume again cover a wide range within the field of the History of Mechanical Engineering with specific focus on MMS and will be of interest and motivation to the work (historical or not) of many.
The Life and Times of James Watt
Author: Nandini Saraf
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 8184302894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 8184302894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
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.
James Watt (1736-1819)
Author: Thomas Humphrey Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
James Watt
Author: H. W. Dickinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110801223X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This 1936 study of the life and work of Watt places his achievements in the context of the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110801223X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This 1936 study of the life and work of Watt places his achievements in the context of the Industrial Revolution.
Lives of Boulton and Watt
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
James Watt
Author: Andrew Carnegie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description