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Title: James Watt

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Release Date: July 26, 2008 [EBook #26131]

Language: English

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JAMES WATT

By
Andrew Carnegie

Author of "The Empire of Business,"
"Gospel of Wealth," "Triumphant Democracy,"
"American Four-in-Hand in Britain,"
"Round the World," Etc.

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1905

Copyright, 1905, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, May, 1905

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation--also right of translation
into the Scandinavian languages._

PREFACE

When the publishers asked me to write the Life of Watt, I declined,
stating that my thoughts were upon other matters. This settled the
question, as I supposed, but in this I was mistaken. Why shouldn't I
write the Life of the maker of the steam-engine, out of which I had made
fortune? Besides, I knew little of the history of the Steam Engine and
of Watt himself, and the surest way to obtain knowledge was to comply
with the publisher's highly complimentary request. In short, the subject
would not down, and finally, I was compelled to write again, telling
them that the idea haunted me, and if they still desired me to undertake
it, I should do so with my heart in the task.

I now know about the steam-engine, and have also had revealed to me one
of the finest characters that ever graced the earth. For all this I am
deeply grateful to the publishers.

I am indebted to friends, Messrs. Angus Sinclair and Edward R. Cooper,
for editing my notes upon Scientific and Mechanical points.

The result is this volume. If the public, in reading, have one tithe of
the pleasure I have had in writing it, I shall be amply rewarded.

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

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