Indice: Watt's life. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Introduction. Pt. 1. The formative years: 1. The family background 2. The immediate family 3. Youth in Greenock 4. The first period in Glasgow, 1753-1755 5. The year in London, 1755-1756 6. Back home in Greenock, 1756-1757. Pt. 2. From instrument maker to engineer: 1. Mathematical instrument maker to the university, 1757-1759 2. The partnership with John Craig, 1759-1765 3. From merchant to engineer, 1765-1774. Pt. 3. Chemical engineer: 1. The state of chemistry before 1760 2. Roebuck, Black and Salt 3. Watt and the Delftfield Pottery. Pt. 4. Civil engineer: 1. The background to Watt's career and civil engineer 2. The start of Watt's career as surveyor 3. Early river and canal surveys 4. The Monkland canal 5. More abortive canal surveys 5. Canals across argyll 6. Watt at Campbeltown 7. Watt's last canal surveys for Lord Cathcart 8. Road and rail surveys 9. Harbours and water supply. Pt. 5. Engineer of steam engines: 1. The first steam engines and Watt's introduction to them 2. Contemporary theories of heat 3. The University of Glasgow 4. The quest for improvement to steam engines in the middle of the eighteenth century 5. Watt's experiments on newcomen engine models 6. Rival engine builders in Scotland 7. Newcomen engines built by Watt 8. Watt's own engine: part 1 & 2 9. Watt's own engine: part 3 10. Watt's own engine: part 4 11. Watt's own engine: part 5 12. Watt's own engine: part 6. Pt. 6. Enter Matthew Boulton: 1. Proposed partnership with Boulton 2. Rotary steam engines and steam-wheel 3. Watt moves to Birmingham at last. Bibliography. Index
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