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James Watt : making the world anew /

"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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, Ben (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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