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James Watt (1736–1819)

  • Pennock G
Springer Netherlands, (2007), 337-369
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6366-4_15
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Abstract

It is generally accepted that the birth of James Watt was destined to bring about a revolution in the utilization of power. Watt, see Fig. 1, is regarded by many to be the progenitor of the science of thermodynamics. He was not only the inventor of the separate...

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Pennock, G. R. (2007). James Watt (1736–1819). In Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science (pp. 337–369). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6366-4_15

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