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understanding the origins of the steam age
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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.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index