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Author:
Miller, David Philip, author.
Title:
The life and legend of James Watt : collaboration, natural philosophy, and the improvement of the steam engine / David Philip Miller.
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xix, 420 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Watt, James,--1736-1819.
Watt, James,--1736-1819.
Inventors--Scotland--Biography.
Steam engineers--Scotland--Biography.
Inventors.
Steam engineers.
Scotland.
Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The making of a Scottish improver -- Improving ventures : civil engineering and steam -- Birmingham, Boulton, and steam enterprise -- Watt as natural philosopher -- Team Watt : collective genius -- The fruits of success -- The living legend -- Afterlife : a man for all causes -- Concluding reflections on the great steamer.
Series:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
ISBN:
0822945584
9780822945581
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1048932586
LCCN:
2018054767
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

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