The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

William Rosen

400 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology adventurous informative slow-paced
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If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, begin...

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