A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove the Industrial Revolution

By Thomas Crump

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845295536
• ISBN13: 9781845295530
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Robinson Non-Fiction
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"