A Brief History of the Age of Steam Paperback / softback
by Thomas Crump
Part of the Brief Histories series
Paperback / softback
Description
In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines.
Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. Passionately written and insightful, A Brief History of the Age of Steam reveals not just the lives of the greatinventors such as Watts, Stephenson and Brunel, but also tells a narrative that reaches from the US to the expansion of China, India and South America.
Crump shows how the steam engine changed the world.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:27/09/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845295530
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:27/09/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781845295530
