James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age

ISBN-13: 9780822965305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

David Philip Miller

Opis

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.