
Full title
The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2013-04-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1793–1859
A gifted popularizer of science, he helped bring complex ideas about technology and discovery to a broad 19th-century readership. Best known for editing the vast Cabinet Cyclopaedia, he turned learning into something lively and accessible.
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