James Watt and the History of Steam PowerPresents Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Ancient Near East, one of a series of Web pages about ancient world cultures contained in the EAWC WWW site. Notes that EAWC contains introductory information about ancient world cultures and is edited by Anthony F. Beavers of the University of Evansville located in Evansville, Indiana. Provides part of a short essay by Bill Hemminger about the ancient Near East. Posts WWW links to items related to the Near East such as Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, and the Hebrew account of Noah, as located by the Limited Area Search of Ancient and Medieval Internet (ARGOS), a limited search engine that searches for links about ancient and medieval worlds. |
Contents
James Watt Invents the Steam Engine | 152 |
James Watt and His Partners | 188 |
The Aftermath | 232 |
Copyright | |
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