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 that drove it—the steam engine. in the process he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: what made eighteenth-century britain such fertile soil for

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

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