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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.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Watt, James, 1736-1819.
Watt, James, 1736-1819.
Inventors -- Scotland -- Biography.
Inventors.
Scotland.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Steam engineers -- Scotland -- Biography.
Steam engineers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, David Philip. Life and legend of James Watt. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019] 9780822945581 (DLC) 2018054767 (OCoLC)1048932586
ISBN 9780822986799 (electronic book)
0822986795 (electronic book)
9780822945581
0822945584