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| Genre/Form: | Biography Correspondence |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Muirhead, James Patrick, 1813-1898. Life of James Watt. London, J. Murray, 1858 (OCoLC)596215968 |
| Named Person: | James Watt |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Patrick Muirhead |
| OCLC Number: | 3702998 |
| Notes: | Inserted after p. 344: "Fac-simile of the erroneous title-page prefixed to the separate copies of Mr. Cavendish's 'Experiments on air, ' read before the Royal society, January 15, 1784." Appendix: No. I. List of the works of Denys Papin. No. II. Historical note on the discovery of the theory of the composition of water. By the Right Hon. Henry Lord Brougham ... No. III. Summary of the history of the progress towards the discovery of the composition of water, and of the discovery itself. |
| Description: | xvi, 580 p. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. facsim. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Appendix: No. I. List of the works of Denys Papin. No. II. Historical note on the discovery of the theory of the composition of water. By the Right Hon. Henry Lord Braugham ... No. III. Summary of the history of the progress towards the discovery of the composition of water, and of the discovery itself. |
| Responsibility: | By James Patrick Muirhead ... With portraits and woodcuts. |
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