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David Philip Miller
James Watt, Chemist [PDF ebook]
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Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.

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Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781851966851 ● Publisher Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2818254 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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