'James Watt, heroic invention and the idea of industrial revolution' in M Berg & K Bruland (eds), Technological Revolutions in Europe. Historical perspectives
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- Author(s) MacLeod, Christine
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1998
- Pages pp96-116
- Publisher Edward Elgar
- Place Published Cheltenham
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Considers the common perception of invention and inventors in the later industrial revolution period and why contemporaries in the 19th century came to view them and their work as heroic and critical to industrial progress. Discussed through the lens of the career of James Watt and the steam engine