By: William Rosen
By: William Rosen
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, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress. in , william rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the industrial revolution and the machine...
Buy on Amazon“The Most Powerful Idea in the World is an entertaining narrative weaving together the clever characters, incremental innovations and historical context behind the steam engines that gave birth to our modern world.”
Feb 4, 2013 — Source