num_pages: 385
description: The author reveals not just the lives of the great inventors such as James Watts, Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel but also tells a narrative that reaches from the US to the expansion of China, India and South America. 'A serious and fully furnished history of science, from which anyone interested in the development of ideas... will greatly profit.'
title: A Brief History of the Age of Steam
publisher: Robinson