James Watt, chemist : understanding the origins of the steam age
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James Watt, chemist : understanding the origins of the steam age
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, no. 8）
Pickering & Chatto, 2009
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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
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
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