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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 and shows how the steam engine changed the world.
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Jose Gutierrez
reviewed A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power that Drove the Industrial Revolution on November 28, 2016
A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power that Drove the Industrial Revolution
This is pretty much a book about the evolution of transport into the steam age. The author takes us on a global journey looking at how railways primarily (although shipping is also covered) powered by steam changed continents, empires and nations. In covering the impact of steam powered transport its not a bad book. However, personally I was hoping for more on the industrial applications of steam power (admitedly covered in the book is the development of beam engines in mining) especially for driving stationary engines. The role of steam in the generation of electricity is also only skimmed over. Not quite what I was hoping for, and I did get a bit bored towards the end with some of the global empires detail which I thought strayed to far from the subject to really justify inclusion. Not a bad book but not the one I was hoping to read (probably more my fault than the authors).
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