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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ;Brookfield, Vt :
Pickering & Chatto ,
c2009
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| Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century
no 8 |
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
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