The most powerful idea in the world
Subtitle: a story of steam, industry and invention
By: William Rosen
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780224082259
Subjects: Industrial revolution; Inventions; History; Steam-engines; Stoom; Stoommachines; Industriële revolutie
Description: States that the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution was invention itself. This book offers an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas - and how invention itself springs forth from logic and imagination. It describes the experiments and accomplishments that led to this revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.