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.
- ISBN10 0786720476
- ISBN13 9780786720477
- Publish Date 1 October 2007 (first published 27 September 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avalon Publishing Group
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English