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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.



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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/09/2007
      ISBN13: 9781845295530, 978-1845295530
      ISBN10: 1845295536
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      Passionate and entertaining * BBC History Magazine *

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