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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: James Watt, chemist [
    sub title: understanding the origins of the steam age
  name:
    name part: Miller, David Philip
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London ;Brookfield, Vt
    publisher: Pickering & Chatto
    date issued: c2009
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: electronic resource]
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 241 p.) : ill
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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
  note: by David Philip Miller
  note: Description based on print version record
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Watt, James
      name part: 1736-181
    topic: Knowledge
    topic: Chemical warfare
  subject:
    topic: Steam engineering
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Watt, James
  classification: TJ140.W38 M55 2009
  identifier: 1851966854 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781851966851 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781851969746
  identifier: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp
  record info:
    record creation date: 110228
    record change date: 20110509093000.0
    record identifier: 0000070938