基本信息出版社：Robinson Publishing
页码：370 页
出版日期：2007年01月
ISBN：1845295536
International Standard Book Number：1845295536
条形码：9781845295530
EAN：9781845295530
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Brief History of

内容简介 This title covers the real story behind the Industrial Revolution. 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.
作者简介 Thomas Crump used to teach Anthropology at Amsterdam University. He is the author of A Brief History of Science, The Anthropology of Numbers and Asia Pacific: A History of Empire and Conflict.
媒体推荐 "'A serious and fully furnished history of science, from which anyone interested in the development of ideas... will greatly profit.' A. C. Grayling, Financial Times 'Provides an enduring sense of the extraordinary ingenuity that defines our relationship with nature.' The Guardian 'An excellent account.. Crump writes with authority.' TLS"