It takes the average reader 7 hours and 20 minutes to read The Life and Legend of James Watt by David Philip Miller
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The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering....
The Life and Legend of James Watt by David Philip Miller is 440 pages long, and a total of 110,000 words.
This makes it 148% the length of the average book. It also has 134% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 1 minute to read The Life and Legend of James Watt aloud.
The Life and Legend of James Watt is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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