James Watt, chemist understanding the origins of the steam age /

• Main Author: Miller, David Philip.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2009.
• Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 8.
• Subjects: Watt, James, > 1736-1819 > Knowledge > Chemical warfare.; Steam engineering > History > 19th century. > Great Britain; Watt, James.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mechanical.; Electronic books.
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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.

Table of Contents:

• 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.