James Watt : making the world anew / Ben Russell.
"Among the many treasures in the collections of the Science Museum in London is the complete workshop of the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736-1819), acquired in its entirety from the attic of Watt's Birmingham home in 1924, where it had been left as an industrial shrine since his death i...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Do we want the dust?
- Sensible, ingenious and enterprising men, 1736-56
- Artists of high reputation, 1757-64
- Looking for a living, 1764-74
- Gentlemen of merit and ingenuity, 1765-81
- Steam mill mad? 1781-95
- Inventive, creative genius, 1795-1819
- Life after death, 1800-1924
- James Watt: A chronology.