A Brief History of the Age of Steam (Brief Histories) - Softcover

Crump, Thomas

 
9781845295530: A Brief History of the Age of Steam (Brief Histories)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845295536 ISBN 13: 9781845295530
Verlag: Constable & Robinson, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.

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Verlag
Constable & Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845295536
ISBN 13 
9781845295530
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
385
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