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In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).
His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".
) Assistant Church Historian, Andrew Jenson, also reported that the alphabet was produced by a committee composed of Orson Pratt, Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, George D. Watt, Robert L. Campbell, and others.
Watt also notes that some of these elements appear in many of his works, such as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream, and had a deep impact on Shakespeare ’ s writing.
Beckett also alludes to the comedy team specifically in his novel Watt ( 1953 ), when a healthy shrub is described at one point as " a hardy laurel.
This system of achieving rotary motion was patented in his own name by James Watt in October 1781 although Samuel Smiles, biographer of Boulton and Watt, attributes this to Murdoch and there also exists a drawing of the sun and planet system in Murdoch's hand dated August 1781.
In the same letter Boulton also secretly urged Watt to include a scheme for a steam powered carriage in his patent application, which Watt did shortly thereafter.
Boulton and Watt also provided engines for a number of other marine vessels.
* Watt () the Li ' l Sparky, with the ability to light up rooms ( also, the only ally in the game with the ability to penetrate an enemy's defenses ).
The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.
WKXI, a 100, 000 Watt FM radio station on 107. 5 and WRBJ, a television station operating on channel 34, are also legally licensed to Magee, but serve Jackson and have no presence in Magee.
Many Scots also settled in the area, including the Gallaway, Scales, Watt, Lenox, Campbell, and Moir families.
The group also included Mike Watt, Dave Markey, Dave Peterson, and Dave Travis.
He also hosts a regular internet radio show aptly entitled, the Watt From Pedro Show.
Like Watt, George Hurley also resides in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.
Asked whether Firehose was planning to make a new album, Mike Watt replied, " When Edward was asking me about doing new gigs, he also said he wanted to write ... he has a band called Food, and said he's been writing songs.
Watt was also concerned with fundamental research on the functioning of the steam engine.
Robert Fulton built the first commercially successful steam paddleship in the US, the ( also known as Clermont ) in 1807, using a Boulton and Watt engine.
The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts ; of George III in The Guildhall, London ; of George IV at Brighton ; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London ; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow ( also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth ); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool ; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall ; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc.
Watt also mentions his fallen friend in Firehose's " Disciples Of The 3-Way " ( Mr. Machinery Operator ) and his own " Burstedman " ( The Secondman's Middle Stand ).
Juha " Watt " Vainio was another popular song-writer, known not only for Finnish renditions of many international hits but also for his own songs and being a performer in his own right.
Most were acquitted, although both Gallacher and Manny Shinwell were put in jail for their activities that day, Shinwell also being charged with inflammatory speech the week before on James Watt Street in the city's docks, in an episode that later erupted into a race riot ...

Watt and recorded
In 1976, jazz composer Michael Mantler recorded an album called The Hapless Child ( Watt / ECM ) with Robert Wyatt, Terje Rypdal, Carla Bley and Jack DeJohnette.
Sonic Youth invited Watt to hang out with them in New York in 1986 ; they recorded a cover of Madonna's " Burnin ' Up " ( with additional guitars by Greg Ginn ) on the first Ciccone Youth EP, and Watt played bass for two songs on the Sonic Youth album Evol.
Watt and Gov't Mule recorded a cover version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Effigy " for the album.
Some trios would overdub multiple parts when recording but perform stripped-back versions of their songs live, while others ( such as the Minutemen ) recorded mostly live, performing " gigs in front of a mic ", as Mike Watt put it.
This sermon was recorded stenographically by George D. Watt, Young's private secretary, who was an expert in Pitman shorthand.
Cline has also performed and recorded with punk rock bassist Mike Watt in his touring bands The Crew of the Flying Saucer and The Black Gang, as well as with members of Sonic Youth and country music legend Willie Nelson, and in the jazz / punk / improv band Banyan with Watt and ex-Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins.
George D. Watt recorded the first four volumes of sermons himself, and he continued to contribute through volume twelve, but at least eleven other stenographers were involved.
For their third album Live At Perkins ' Palace ( named after the fact that it was recorded at Perkins ' home studio, not after the live performance venue of the same name ), the band reduced itself to a four-piece unit of Perkins, Watt, Cline, and Waldman.
Formed in 2002 in Watt's hometown of San Pedro, California, the band first consisted of organist Pete Mazich and drummer Jerry Trebotic, both of whom had played with Watt in a side project, The Madonnabes, that was devoted to reinterpreting the works of Madonna ; the three musicians had also previously recorded a song for a Doctors Without Borders benefit album under the name Mike Watt & Masina in 1998, with Mazich's wife Ljil on vocals.
For the first time in his career, Watt recorded in his home town of San Pedro, California at Karma Studio with veteran recording engineer Michael Rich, and recorded for the first time using a full digital audio system ( Pro Tools ) rather than analog tape.
For the recording of the album in May 1997, Watt tapped guitarist Nels Cline ( whom he had recorded and toured with on his previous solo album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
Dos ' recorded and live repertoire consists of both original instrumentals ( some of which would later have lyrics added to them to become fIREHOSE or Watt solo songs ), some original vocal pieces, and cover versions sung primarily by Kira and rearranged for their two basses.
The first recorded sighting of the lake was in 1870 by Mr. Watt and Dr. Nicholls, two Englishmen working in Dominica at that time.
Watt did work with both Cline and Meghrouni again after the Crew Of The Flying Saucer had completed its run ; Cline was the sole guitarist on Watt's second solo album Contemplating The Engine Room, and has toured and recorded with him as part of both another Watt project band, The Black Gang, and in the jazz / punk group Banyan.

Watt and bass
A limited number of these bass heads have been released by Marshall in 2008 as the " 1992LEM ", a signature series copy of Lemmy's 1992 100 Watt Super Bass Head, " Murder One ".
Bass guitar lines are often uncomplicated ; the quintessential approach is a relentless, repetitive " forced rhythm ," although some punk rock bass players — such as Mike Watt of The Minutemen and Firehose — emphasize more technical bass lines.
Shortly thereafter, the Stooges officially reunited, performing a series of live shows in the United States and Europe, with Watt on bass at Ron Asheton's request, and Fun House-era saxophonist Steve Mackay.
* Mike Wattbass guitar ( 2003 – present )
CMJ New Music called Watt a " seminal post-punk bass player.
Watt and Boon picked up bass and guitar, respectively.
Watt cites this period as critical in inspiring his post-Minutemen career saying, " The first thing I did was Thurston asked me to play bass on Evol.
In 1996, Watt contributed bass lines to two songs on Porno for Pyros ' second album, Good God's Urge.
Starting in mid-2011, Watt began playing bass for a psychedelic / progressive rock band called Anywhere with the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Christian Eric Beaulieu of Triclops !.
In 2002, Watt, along with Pete Yorn and members of The Hives, backed Iggy Pop for a short set of Stooges songs at that year's Shortlist Music Prize ceremony, after which Watt was asked to play bass in the reunited Stooges lineup in 2003.
Firehose ( stylized as fIREHOSE ) is an alternative rock band consisting of Mike Watt ( bass, vocals ), Ed Crawford ( guitar, vocals ), and George Hurley ( drums ).
Since disbanding, Mike Watt has released four solo albums and been involved in numerous musical projects including the longstanding bass duo, Dos ( with ex-Black Flag bassist and wife, Kira Roessler ), Banyan ( with Jane's Addiction drummer, Stephen Perkins ), Jay Mascis and the Fog, the Stooges and the Unknown Instructors ( along with George Hurley ).
Boon formed Minutemen in January 1980 with childhood friend Mike Watt on bass, from their previous band, The Reactionaries, later adding former Reactionaries drummer George Hurley.
She invited punk bass icon Mike Watt ( the Minutemen, Iggy Pop ) to perform on " It Takes You There ", while " Ugly Man " was a direct aim at the George Bush ' regime ' evoking, with an anthem-like Hugh Masekela arrangement, what she termed ' the Black Panther horns ', and calling for ' revolution, everywhere that you're not looking, revolution.
A guitarist in a short-lived band while he attended UCLA, Turk performed with the group as " Industrial Waist ," which also featured Jack Watt ( on drums ; he was Jackie Watt, a female, back then ), mathematician and teacher Paul Lockhart ( lead vocals, guitar ; Lockhart later became known for writing the internet sensation — and later, book-A Mathematician's Lament ), Rhythm and Hues Studios co-founder Keith Goldfarb ( bass player ), and Alex Melnick ( the band's original drummer ).
The core members of the band are Nels Cline on guitar, Willie Waldman on trumpet and Mike Watt ( Minutemen ) on bass.
Both Mike Watt and Nels Cline generally play only West Coast dates and at various times the band has had Rob Wasserman on bass and Clint Wagner on guitar fill in when they are unavailable.
Watt augmented the basic sound of the Secondmen in the studio with tympani and other percussion borrowed from Stephen Perkins ( Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Banyan ), backing vocals by alt-rock chanteuse Petra Haden, and an extensive array of effect pedals that Watt played his bass through in order to help convey some of the emotions and ideas behind the album.

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