A Brief History of the Age of Steam

TIN news:  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.

Product details Format Paperback | 384 pages
Dimensions 128 x 196 x 28mm | 322.05g
Publication date 27 Sep 2007
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Robinson Publishing
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
ISBN10 1845295536
ISBN13 9781845295530
Bestsellers rank 10,627