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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781845295530
eBay Product ID (ePID)91446905
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Brief History of the Age of Steam
AuthorThomas Crump
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height132mm
Item Width199mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorThomas Crump
Series TitleBrief Histories
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom