Watt's Perfect Engine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: The Bookwatch | Date: April 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Watt's Perfect Engine

Ben Marsden

Columbia University Press

61 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023-7015

www.columbiaedu/cu/cup

0231131720 $19.50 1-800-944-8648

James Watt's name has become well known as the inventor of the light bulb; but it was the steam engine which also earned him fame--and which did not com...

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