A Brief History of the Age of Steam

A Brief History of the Age of Steam
Author :
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Total Pages : 388
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015073639778
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brief History of the Age of Steam by : Thomas Crump

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.

A Brief History of the Age of Steam

A Brief History of the Age of Steam
Author :
Publisher : Constable
Total Pages : 388
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105124053757
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brief History of the Age of Steam by : Thomas Crump

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.

The Age of Steam

The Age of Steam
Author :
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages : 312
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0883940795
ISBN-13 : 9780883940792
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The Age of Steam by : Lucius Beebe

Portrays 125 years of steam engine operations on the railroad.

A Short History of the Steam Engine

A Short History of the Steam Engine
Author :
Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis A Short History of the Steam Engine by : Henry Winram Dickinson

The Age of Steam

The Age of Steam
Author :
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1571452842
ISBN-13 : 9781571452849
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Age of Steam by : J. N. Westwood

The power and romance of the age of steam are captured in this vividly illustrated chronicle of the steam trains and railways that forged a new era in transportation from 1830 onward Presenting the first opportunity for long-distance travel powered by machines, the emergence of the train had an unprecedented influence on the development of industry, social history, emigration, leisure patterns, and military history. The steam locomotive was, in short, an engine for change whose impact around the world was both profound and indelible.

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 401
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226726342
ISBN-13 : 0226726347
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Most Powerful Idea in the World by : William Rosen

"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

Dead Iron

Dead Iron
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101516461
ISBN-13 : 1101516461
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Dead Iron by : Devon Monk

Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears... In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers-and now in the hands of an ancient Strange who was banished to walk this Earth. In a land shaped by magic, steam, and iron, where the only things a man can count on are his guns, gears, and grit, Cedar will have to depend on all three if he's going to save his brother and reclaim his soul once and for all...

Steam on the Farm

Steam on the Farm
Author :
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages : 200
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105132200812
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Steam on the Farm by : Jonathan Brown

The 19th century was the great age of steam. This book traces the history and development of the agricultural use of steam power from the 19th century to the end of the Second World War and considers how it was actually used.

Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print

Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 312
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520275027
ISBN-13 : 0520275020
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print by : James L. Gelvin

The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history. In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.

Power from Steam

Power from Steam
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 360
Release :
ISBN-10 : 052145834X
ISBN-13 : 9780521458344
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Power from Steam by : Richard L. Hills

This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.