Watts' Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention - Softcover

Marsden, Ben

 
9781840465464: Watts' Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1840465468 ISBN 13: 9781840465464
Verlag: Icon Books Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

We all know the story. A young James Watt gazed up at a simmering kettle, then grew up and replaced the rattling lid with a piston, heralding the age of steam. But how much of this familiar legend is true? Ben Marsden's entertaining and informative book provides the answer, which as you might guess is: not a lot. Scotland on Sunday



James Watt is synonymous with the steam engine: Promethean symbol of the Industrial Revolution. But what motivated Watt to re-invent steam? And how did Watt's perfect engine become the progenitor of progress and its problems in nineteenth-century Britain?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ben Marsden is a lecturer in cultural history at the University of Aberdeen. He read maths at Cambridge, music in London, and history of science at Kent. He normally writes about engines that fail, prefers to study engineers who teach, and sometimes wastes time comparing the connections between music and science in history. He owns three kettles but is still looking for inspiration.

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Verlag
Icon Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1840465468
ISBN 13 
9781840465464
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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