Watts, Henry

Watts, Henry, ed. A History of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences. Vols. 12. London Longman, Green, 1870, 1872. 

Waters, William, 193 Watt, Charles, 45 Watts, Henry, 98, 101 Weber, Wilhelm, 45, 52 Weizmann, Chaim, 180, 180 n.75... 

See D. P. Miller, Discovering Water James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century Water Controversy (Aldershot Ashgate, 2004). 

Watts (1859-81) Watts, Henry A Dictionary of Chemistry (1859 8 Supplements 1872-81)... 

In the present study we try to obtain the isotherm equation in the form of a sum of the three terms Langmuir s, Henry s and multilayer adsorption, because it is the most convenient and is easily physically interpreted but, using more a realistic assumption. Namely, we take the partition functions as in the case of the isotherm of d Arcy and Watt [20], but assume that the value of V for the multilayer adsorption appearing in the (5) is equal to the sum of the number of adsorbed water molecules on the Langmuir s and Henry s sites ... 

Hermann Kopp, Geschichte der Chemie, 4 vols. (Braunschweig Vieweg, 18431847). Adolphe Wurtz, A History of Chemical Theory, trans. Henry Watts (London Macmillan, 1869), on 1. As so often happens in historical mythologies, Wurtz s account had meaning for a contemporary quarrel in his own immediate scientific community. See Alan J. Rocke, "The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s Scientific Theory as Social Production and Empirical Practice," in Seymour Mauskopf, ed., Chemical Sciences in the Modern World (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, in press). 

Marcellin Berthelot, La revolution chimique Lavoisier (Paris Alcan, 1890) and Adolphe Wurtz, "Histoire des doctrines chimiques depuis Lavoisier," introductory essay to Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquee, 3 vols. (Paris Hachette, 18681878), trans. Henry Watts, History of Chemical Theory (London Macmillan, 1869). 

A History of Chemical Theory. Trans. Henry Watts. London Macmillan, 1869. 

James Watt, celebrated Scotch engineer and perfector of the first practical steam engine, sat there with his business partner, Boulton, while Samuel Galton, wealthy man of letters, exchanged views on science, literature and politics with Dr. Withering, physician and chemist. Captain James Kerr, commercial chemist and author Collins, an American rebel, and Dr. Henry Moyes, a blind lecturer in chemistry, completed this... 

In the later nineteenth century a number of other sculptors were commissioned to produce statues of Watt. Some of these were effectively imitations of Chantrey s statue. Even those not directly imitative often depicted the dividers and scroll, thus perpetuating the head and hand image of the philosopher-engineer. This is the form, for example, of the statue by William Theed erected in 1857 in Manchester, and also of that by Henry Charles Fehr in City Square, Leeds.14... 

The Greenock statue was sculpted by Henry Charles Fehr.49 It was the second Watt statue that Fehr had produced, the first being erected in Leeds City Square... 

Watt, like Black, was committed to one of three major views of heat extant at the time. The first of the three views was that heat was motion, or the vibration of the parts of ordinary material bodies. This mechanical theory of heat had been favoured by Boyle and had been endorsed by Newton. But the mechanical theory was not fashionable in the mid- to late eighteenth century. We know that a mathematical theory of heat as motion was developed by Henry Cavendish in the 1780s but, typically, not published.42 This type of theory was, of course, to become the correct view of heat by the mid-nineteenth century. The second and third accounts of heat are often collapsed together as material theories since in both heat was a special substance rather than the motion of ordinary matter. The distinction between these two material theories is clearly described by McCormmach ... 

The earliest, and I think so far unnoticed, record of an attempt by Watt to diagnose experimentally the chemical state of the steam inside a working engine is contained in an eyewitness report by Henry Cavendish. In early August 1785 Cavendish and his assistant Charles Blagden visited the Soho works of Boulton Watt at Birmingham. They were shown Watt s latest experiments on the steam engine, and Cavendish recorded the experience ... 

Forbes to William Whewell, 29 October 1848, Whewell Papers, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, Add. Ms. a. 204/84. In this letter Forbes identified Henry, Lord Brougham, among whose many roles was as an advocate of Watt in the water controversy) as the very beau-ideal of Macaulay s 19th Century man) (See Miller, Discovering Water, p. 256.)... 

Ashforth, John Tehranian, Michael Kwass, Jesse Ribot, Ezra Suleiman, Jim Boyce, Jeff Burds, Fred Cooper, Ann Stoler, Atul Kohli, Orlando Figes, Anna Tsing, Vernon Ruttan, Henry Bernstein, Michael Watts, Allan Fred, Witoon Permpongsacharoen, Gene Ammarell, and David Feeny. 

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