Abstract

Prologue: The 'Great Steamer' - A Life Outlined Part I: Representations 1 Introduction: Of Statues, Kettles and Indicators - 'The Mechanical Watt' 2 The Demise of the 'Chemical Watt' in the Nineteenth Century 3 The 'Mechanical Watt': The Making of a 'Philosophical Engineer' Part II: Realities 4 Watt's Chemistry of Heat 5 The Steam Engine as Chemistry 6 The Indicator Understood, or Why Watt was not a Proto-thermodynamicist Conclusions

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