Andrew Carnegie

James Watt (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the value of this invention to technological and social change - it gave us the modern world we live in today. This is his biography as written by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775416340
• Artikelnr.: 39505149

Autorenporträt

ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist born in Scotland and emigrated to America as a teenager. Carnegie's benefactions (totaling about $350 million) included Carnegie Hall (1892) in New York City, the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1902), the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (1904), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910) and over 2,800 libraries.