A Brief History of the Age of Steam

Crump, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1845295536 / ISBN 13: 9781845295530

Edité par Constable & Robinson (edition Second Printing), 2007

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Synopsis :

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 great
inventors 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.

À propos de l'auteur: Thomas Crump was the author of A Brief History of Science. His lifelong passionate interest in science and its history gave rise to a number of books, including Solar Eclipse and The Anthropology of Numbers. A mathematician and anthropologist, until his retirement in 1994, he taught anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : A Brief History of the Age of Steam
Éditeur : Constable & Robinson (edition Second Printing)
Date d'édition : 2007
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Edition : Second Printing.