A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove The Industrial Revolution
by Thomas Crump
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- Paperback
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- 1845295536
- ISBN 13
- 9781845295530
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Robinson, 2007. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and maps. 370 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "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.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-357) and index.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Title
- A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove The Industrial Revolution
- Author
- Thomas Crump
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1845295536
- ISBN 13
- 9781845295530
- Publisher
- Robinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 1710, Industrial revolution, Steam engine, Coal engine, Transportation, Trains, Railway systems, Locomotives,
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