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Lives of Boulton and Watt: Principally from the Original Soho Mss., Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Steam-Engine

Lives of Boulton and Watt: Principally from the Original Soho Mss., Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Steam-Engine

Smiles, Samuel

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Fashion BiographiesTechnology & EngineeringGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353609542
ISBN13: 9789353609542
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 28 2019
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before factories remade the world, two men remade power. Their partnership changed everything. Samuel Smiles traces the Lives of Boulton and Watt through original Soho papers, creating an industrial biography that reads with the drive of a novel and the authority of a history of technology. Just the records, plainly told. Here are contracts, experiments, setbacks, and the stubborn patience required to turn an idea into a machine that nations could trust. At its heart is a vivid James Watt biography set against eighteenth-century Britain, where science met commerce and reputation mattered as much as metal. From the Birmingham Soho Manufactory to the workshops and counting-houses that financed progress, Smiles charts industrial revolution innovation in motion: engineering entrepreneurship, the uneasy birth of modern patents, and the disciplined craft behind the history of steam engine. The result is a classic of industrial revolution biographies, prized as an industrial history reference for anyone who wants to understand how mechanical engineering became an engine of society. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For mechanical engineering students, it is a grounding case study in design, iteration, and enterprise; for historians and general readers, a human-scale account of ambition and collaboration. A complete classic edition to keep, return to, and pass on. For collectors of classic literature, it sits confidently beside the narratives of invention and industry.

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