James Watt, Chemist

Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age

David Philip Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2009
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85196-974-6 (ISBN)

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In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. 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.

Prologue: The 'Great Steamer' - A Life Outlined Part I: Representations 1 Introduction: 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' Part II: 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 Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.6.2009
Reihe/Serie	Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	1-85196-974-8 / 1851969748
ISBN-13	978-1-85196-974-6 / 9781851969746
Zustand	Neuware