Watts' Perfect Engine
Steam and the Age of Invention
Will be published approx. on 3. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-84046-546-4 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Duxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: 14 years
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84046-546-4 (9781840465464)
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Person
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.