For all this I am deeply grateful to the publishers. I am indebted to friends, Messrs. Angus Sinclair and Edward R. Cooper, for editing my notes upon Scientific and Mechanical points. The result is this volume.
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.
This 1936 study of the life and work of Watt places his achievements in the context of the Industrial Revolution.
James Watt
Richard Hills has worked from original records, checking printed versions where necessary and has shed new light on thus far obscure areas of Watt's life and personality. The book is...
A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.
James Watt by Andrew Carnegie, is a classic science and technology biography about the great Scottish inventor.