What Did James Watt Really Invent?

• Autores: Jr. Thomas B. Greenslade
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 61, Nº. 4, 2023, págs. 266-267
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Everyone knows that James Watt “invented” the steam engine. Like so many other “inventors,” such as Morse, Daguerre, and Marconi, he put together a number of ideas as he developed the finished piece of technology. In this note, I will discuss his own contribution, and show how considerations of physics lay behind his work. Let me end by telling you a physics story about a simple little object in my collection of historical physics apparatus.