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    The Life and legend of James Watt : collaboration, natural philosophy, and the improvement of the steam engine / David Philip Miller.
    by Miller, David Philip, author.
    Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
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    Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
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    xix, 420 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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    The making of a Scottish improver -- Improving ventures : civil engineering and steam -- Birmingham, Boulton, and steam enterprise -- Watt as natural philosopher : the experimental life -- 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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    The Life and Legend of James Watt offers 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.
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