Book ID: CBB000501931

Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (2002)

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Marsden, Ben (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: ix + 213 pp.; ill.; bib.
Language: English

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Review Vaccari, Valentina (2005) Review of "Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 490). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Miller, David Philip
Hills, Richard L.
Archer-Parré, Caroline
Martin Schneider
Russell, Ben
Watt, James
Journals
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Kultur & Technik: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Museums
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh Press
Reaktion Books
Pickering & Chatto
Liverpool University Press
Diploma
Dept. of Sociology, Univ. Exeter
Concepts
Steam engines; steam turbines
Biographies
Technology
Industrial revolution
Engineering
Chemistry
People
Watt, James
Boulton, Matthew
Newcomen, Thomas
Watt, James, Jr.
Reichenbach, Georg von
Prony, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche, Baron de
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Birmingham (England)
Scotland
France
England
Netherlands
Europe
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Bataafsch Genootschap te Rotterdam
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