James Watt, chemist [ understanding the origins of the steam age

This text examines James Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, David Philip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ;Brookfield, Vt : Pickering & Chatto , c2009
Series:Science and culture in the nineteenth century no 8
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Online Access:NetLibrary

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. 1:Representations -- 2. Of statues, kettles and indicators - The 'mechanical Watt' -- 3. The demise of the 'chemical Watt' in the nineteenth century -- 4. The 'mechanical Watt': the making of a 'philosophical engineer' -- 5. II: Realities --Watt's chemistry of heat -- 6. The steam engine as chemistry -- 7. The indicator understood, or why Watt was not a proto-thermodynamicist -- 8. Conclusions 
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