David Philip Miller

James Watt, Chemist (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Part I of the bookRepresentationsexamines the way James Watt has been portrayed over time, emphasizing sculptural, pictorial and textual representations from the nineteenth century. As an important contributor to the development of arguably the most important technology of industrialization, Watt became a symbol that many groups of thinkers were anxious to claim. Part IIRealitiesfocuses on reconstructing the unsung "chemical Watt" instead of the lionized engineer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981725
• Artikelnr.: 45687478

Autorenporträt

David Philip Miller is emeritus professor of history of science at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a member of the International Academy of the History of Science.