James Watt, Chemist:
Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
David Philip Miller
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Hb: 256pp:
June 2009
978 1 85196 974 6: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 974 6: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
James Watt was an iconic engineer of the Victorian era. 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.