James Watt, chemist understanding the origins of the steam age /
Miller examines 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: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Brookfield, Vt. :
Pickering & Chatto,
2009.
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| Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
no. 8. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a James Watt, chemist |b understanding the origins of the steam age / |c by David Philip Miller. |h [electronic resource] : |
| 260 | # | # | |a London ; |a Brookfield, Vt. : |b Pickering & Chatto, |c 2009. |
| 300 | # | # | |a 1 online resource (viii, 241 p.) : |b ill. |
| 490 | 1 | # | |a Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; |v no. 8 |
| 504 | # | # | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 | 0 | # | |a Cover -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Of Statues, Kettles and Indicators -- 2. The Demise of the 'Chemical Watt' in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. The 'Mechanical Watt' -- 4. Watt's Chemistry of Heat -- 5. The Steam Engine as Chemistry -- 6. The Indicator Understood, or Why Watt was not a Protothermodynamicist -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| 520 | # | # | |a Miller examines 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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