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|a 1851966854 (electronic bk.)
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|a Miller, David Philip ,
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|a James Watt, chemist [
|h electronic resource] :
|b understanding the origins of the steam age
|c by David Philip Miller
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|a London ;Brookfield, Vt :
|b Pickering & Chatto ,
|c c2009
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|a 1 online resource (viii, 241 p.) :
|b ill
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|a Science and culture in the nineteenth century
|v no 8
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|a Description based on print version record
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index
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|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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|a 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.
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|a Watt, James ,
|d 1736-181
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|x Chemical warfare
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|a Steam engineering
|z Great Britain
|x History
|y 19th century
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|u http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=278792
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|c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)
|e Gong Badak Campus
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