James Watt, chemist : understanding the origins of the steam age / David Philip Miller.
Pubblicazione:
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2009.
Descrizione fisica:
viii, 241 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; 8
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgements. List of figures. Introduction. Pt. 1. Representations: 1. Of statues, kettles and indicators: the mechanical Watt 2. The demise of the chemical Watt in the nineteenth century 3. The mechanical Watt: the making of a philosophical engineer. Pt. 2. Realities: 4. Watt's chemistry of heat 5. The steam engine as chemistry 6. The indicator understood, or why Watt was not a proto-thermodynamicist 7. Conclusions. Notes. Works cited. Index
ISBN:
9781851969746
Discipline:
Ingegneria termica, pneumatica e dell'energia idraulica--Persone.
