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

Marsden, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840465468 ISBN 13: 9781840465464

Verlag: Icon Books Ltd, 2004

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

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