Translating Heat: Tackling Old Conceptions with New Ideas, 1855–1868

Hsien-ch’un Wang ()
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Hsien-ch’un Wang: National Tsing Hua University

Chapter Chapter 3 in Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development, 2022, pp 57-94 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 2 briefly discussed texts such as the Bowu xinbian written by foreign missionaries that introduced the basic scientific ideas of vacuum and atmospheric pressure to Chinese readers. To some extent, those texts made the trials of China’s first domestically built steamer, the Huanghu, possible. Although engine building involved engineering technicalities including machine tooling, metal smelting and casting, and gearing, there was no denying that the science of heat was the heart of steam engine technology.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59813-4_3

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