Lives of Boulton and Watt - Brossura

Smiles, Mr Samuel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1533349878 ISBN 13: 9781533349873

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1865

Riassunto

The present volume concludes the author’s ‘Lives of the Engineers.’ Its preparation was begun many years since. The favourable reception given to the ‘Life of George Stephenson,’ the principal improver and introducer of the locomotive engine, encouraged the author to follow it by a Life of James Watt, the principal inventor and introducer of the condensing engine. On making inquiries, however, he found that the subject had already been taken in hand by J. P. Muirhead, Esq., the literary executor of the late Mr. Watt, of Aston Hall, near Birmingham. As Mr. Muirhead was in all respects entitled to precedence, and was, moreover, in possession of the best sources of information, the author’s contemplated Life of Watt was abandoned, and he satisfied himself with embodying the substance of the materials he had collected in a review of Mr. Muirhead’s work, which appeared in the ‘Quarterly Review’ for July, 1858.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 1865
• ISBN 10: 1533349878
• ISBN 13: 9781533349873
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310