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Author:

Miller, David Philip.

Title:

James Watt, chemist : understanding the origins of the steam age / by David Philip Miller.

Publisher:

Pickering & Chatto,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Watt, James,--1736-1819--Chemistry.--Chemistry.
Steam engineering--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-233) and index

Contents:

I: Representations -- Of statues, kettles and indicators - The 'mechanical Watt' -- The demise of the 'chemical Watt' in the nineteenth century -- The 'mechanical Watt': the making of a 'philosophical engineer' -- II: Realities -- Watt's chemistry of heat -- The steam engine as chemistry -- The indicator understood, or why Watt was not a proto-thermodynamicist -- Conclusions.

Series:

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 8

ISBN:

1851969748 (hbk.)
9781851969746 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317254375

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)