A Brief History of the Age of Steam

Zusatztext Passionate and entertaining Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 and shows how the steam engine changed the world. Zusammenfassung The real story behind the Industrial Revolution

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thomas Crump, Crump Thomas
• Verlag: Robinson Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.09.2007
• EAN: 9781845295530
• ISBN: 978-1-84529-553-0
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 199 mm x 132 mm x 26 mm
• Serien: Brief Histories; Brief Histories
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Technik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Ratgeber > Fahrzeuge, Flugzeuge, Schiffe, Raumfahrt > Schienenfahrzeuge; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), British & Irish history, History of engineering & technology, Industry & industrial studies, Industrialisation & Industrial History