Miller, David Philip (Author)
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.
...MoreReview Jan Golinski (2019) Review of "The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 382-384).
Article Leslie Tomory (2020) Watt as an ‘improver’ and chemist. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 371-376).
Review Adam Lucas (2020) Review of "The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 363-369).
Review Larry Stewart (2020) Review of "The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 357-362).
Review David Philip Miller (2020) Review of "The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 377-383).
Review Hugh Torrens (2020) Review of "The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 402-403).
Review Jane Insley (2019) Review of "The Life and Legend of James Watt: Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 716-717).
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(2014)
James Watt: Making the World Anew
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Caroline Archer-Parré;
Malcolm Dick;
(2020)
James Watt (1736-1819): Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment
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Miller, David Philip;
(2009)
James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
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Dario Generali;
(2016)
Le Radici della Razionalità Critica: Saperi, Pratiche, Teleologie. Studi offerti a Fabio Minazzi
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Cohen, H. Floris;
(2009)
The Rise of Modern Science as a Fundamental Pre-Condition for the Industrial Revolution
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Dario Generali;
(2016)
Le Radici della Razionalità Critica: Saperi, Pratiche, Teleologie. Studi offerti a Fabio Minazzi
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Amílcar, Martín Medina;
Gouzevitch, Maxime;
(2008)
Aux sources de la thermodynamique. Le mémoire sure “la force expansive de la vapeur” du Chevalier de Betancourt et du Baron de Prony
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Marsden, Ben;
(2002)
Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention
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Miller, David Philip;
(2011)
The Mysterious Case of James Watt's “1785 Steam Indicator”: Forgery or Folklore in the History of an Instrument?
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Boulton, Matthew;
Watt, James;
(1981)
The selected papers of Boulton and Watt. Edited by Tann, Jennifer. Vol. 1: The engine partnership
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Kanefsky, John;
(1978)
Boulton and Watt and the development of the steam engine: A reassessment
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Verbruggen, Jan Adrianus;
(2005)
The Correspondence of Jan Daniel Huichelbos van Liender with James Watt
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Hills, Richard L.;
(1998)
How James Watt invented the separate condenser. Part II: The separate condenser
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Naegel, Paul;
Teissier, Pierre;
(2013)
Obtaining a Royal Privilege in France for the Watt Engine, 1776--1786
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Martin Schneider;
(2020)
Unter Dampf: Thomas Newcomen, James Watt und die Entwicklung einer neuen Kraftmaschine (Under steam: Thomas Newcomen, James Watt and the development of a new power engine)
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Tann, Jennifer;
(1977-78 (pub. 1979))
Boulton and Watt's organisation of steam engine production before the opening of Soho Foundry
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Donovan, Arthur L.;
(1979)
Toward a social history of technological ideas: Joseph Black, James Watt, and the separate condenser
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Schneider, Ivo;
(1996)
Rashomon, oder Georg Reichenbach: Der geheimnisvolle Aufenthalt des späteren Ingenieurs im Jahr 1791 bei Boulton & Watt in Soho
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Hills, Richard L.;
(1998)
How James Watt invented the separate condenser. Part 1: Scientific background
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Miller, David Philip;
(2008)
Seeing the Chemical Steam through the Historical Fog: Watt's Steam Engine as Chemistry
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