A Brief History of the Age of Steam: From the First Engine to the Boats and Railways by Thomas Crump

A Brief History of the Age of Steam: From the First Engine to the Boats and Railways

Thomas Crump

320 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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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 t...

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