James Watt, chemist
Subtitle: understanding the origins of the Steam Age
By: by David Philip Miller
Series: Science and culture in the nineteenth century -- 8; 8
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781851969746
Description: This text examines James 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.
Notes: Literaturverz. S. 217 - 233