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James Watt: Making the World Anew (Record no. 5723)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781780233758
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 609.2 RUS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Russell, Ben
9 (RLIN) 376420
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title James Watt: Making the World Anew
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Reaktion Books;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 15 Aug 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 256 Pages;
Other physical details Hardback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Among the many treasures in the collections of the Science Museum in London is the complete workshop of the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736-1819), acquired in its entirety from the attic of Watt's Birmingham home in 1924, where it had been left as an industrial shrine since his death in 1819. Watt is best known for his pioneering work on the steam engine, but the workshop contains very few engine-related items. Instead, it is filled with jars of chemicals, sculpture-copying machines and materials, a profusion of instruments and objects and evidence of Watt's many diverse projects. Traditional biographies of Watt have concentrated on the steam engine, but Ben Russell tells a richer story, exploring the processes by which ephemeral ideas were transformed into tangible artefacts and the multifaceted world of production upon which Britain's industrial revolution depended. James Watt: Making the World Anew is a craft history of Britain's early industrial transformation as well as a prehistory of the engineering profession itself.It explores the motivation for making things, looking not only at what was produced but also why, drawing on a rich range of resources - not just archival material and biographies on Watt but also objects themselves, and sources from fields as diverse as ceramics, antique systems of proportion, sculpture and machine making. Generously illustrated, James Watt is a unique, expansive exploration of the engineer's life, not as an end in itself but as a lens through which the broader practices of making and manufacturing in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries can be explored.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Inventions & inventors
9 (RLIN) 376421
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular science
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Biography: science, technology & medicine
9 (RLIN) 376423
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Biography 10/07/2016 2 609.2 WAT PKLC006746 20/01/2023 10/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   03/11/2022
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 16/05/2016   609.2 WAT PKLC011267 16/05/2016 16/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 donated to the faislabad festival 2019