James Watt

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781775416340

The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the value of this invention to technological and social change - it gave us the modern world we live in today. This is his biography as written by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter I - Childhood and Youth
• Chapter II - Glasgow to London —Return to Glasgow
• Chapter III - Captured by Steam
• Chapter IV - Partnership with Roebuck
• Chapter V - Boulton Partnership
• Chapter VI - Removal to Birmingham
• Chapter VII - Second Patent
• Chapter VIII - The Record of the Steam Engine
• Chapter IX - Watt in Old Age
• Chapter X - Watt, the Inventor and Discoverer
• Chapter XI - Watt, the Man