Format: Paperback
Pages: 536
ISBN: 9780822966111
Pub Date: 25 Jun 2019
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Description:
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering.