The life and times of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney : gentleman scientist and inventor, 1793-1875 /
Dale H. Porter has combined recent research by local Cornish historians with his own investigations of nineteenth-century London politics and society to reconstruct Goldsworthy Gurney's remarkable life
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Bethlehem : London :
Lehigh University Press ; Associated University Presses,
c1998
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Gurney's Cornish background
- 2. London, 1820-1824 : lectures on chemistry, part I
- 3. Lectures on chemistry, part II
- 4. New directions
- 5. Inventing the steam carriage
- 6. The steam carriage as a commercial venture
- 7. Opponents and rivals
- 8. Mr. Gurney's case
- 9. Steamboats, lighthouses, castles, and hot air
- 10. Mine ventilation
- 11. Parliament
- 12. The steam-jet furnace and the sewers of London
- 13. Recognition and decline
- 14. Science, technology, and invention in the early nineteenth century