Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (Revolutions in Science S.)

by Ben Marsden (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $37.17

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $5.82

  James Watt is synonymous with the steam-engine, Promethean symbol of the Industrial Revolution. But what motivated him to re-invent steam? What convinced him that a simple idea - to give the steam-engine a separate condenser. A fascinating story of scientific and social upheaval in an age of radical change.