Watt's perfect engine : steam & the age of invention / Ben Marsden.
Pubblicazione:
Royston : Icon books, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
213 p. : ill., ritr. ; 20 cm
Serie:
Revolutions in science
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Introduction: What's Watt? 1. Breeding an inventor 2. Re-discovering steam 3. Re-inventing steam 4. An experiment in engineering 5. Learning industry 6. Doubling, rotating, expanding and indicating 7. Circumnavigating Watt: pirates and patents 8. Manufacturing and marketing: the business of the steam engine 9. My dear philosophe: James Watt, man of science 10. The progeny of steam: planes, trains and automobiles? 11. Monuments and myths: re-imagining Watt. Glossary. Bibliography
Visionato in:
IMSS
ISBN:
1840465468
Discipline:
Ingegneria termica, pneumatica e dell'energia idraulica--Persone.
Vaccari, Valentina 1977- Recensione].