James Watt
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Watt
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The Law of Intellectual Property
Inventor cited as an example of a great inventor subjected to degrading royal patent language.
Is it not nearly an infinite insult, that such men as Arkwright and Watt, who were of ten thousand times more value to mankind than all the kings and queens that time has ever produced, or ever will produce, should be necessitated to hold their natural rights to the products of their own labor, on such terms as these?
Yet who can say that what is true of Alexander, and Cæsar, and Napoléon, and Raphael, and Angelo, and Franklin, is not equally true of Arkwright, and Watt, and Fulton, and Morse?
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Inventor named as an example of the vigour of the age and later used as a comparison for Bentham's mind.
In studying Bentham’s intellectual character we are reminded that, if he was the follower of Hobbes and of Locke, he was the contemporary of Arkwright and of Watt.
Consider, at the same time, the existence of men of science such as Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), or Sir John Herschell (1792-1871), and note the appearance of inventors such as Watt (1736-1819), and Stephenson (1781-1848).
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Steam engine pioneer credited with contributing to England's commercial riches
Hargreaves and Jennings, and Arkwright and Watt, the first fruits of machinery, and the early application of steam, piled up riches for England;