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The most powerful idea in the world : a story of steam, industry, and invention / William Rosen.

By: Rosen, William, 1955-2016.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012Edition: University of Chicago Press edition.Description: xxv, 370 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226726342 (pbk. : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Steam-engines -- History | Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History | Intellectual property -- Economic aspects | Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain | Creative ability in technology -- Economic aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Rocket -- Changes in the atmosphere -- A great company of men -- The first and true inventor -- A very great quantity of heat -- Science in his hands -- The whole thing was arranged in my mind -- Master of them all -- A field that is endless -- Quite splendid with a file -- To give England the power of cotton -- Wealth of nations -- Strong steam -- The fuel of interest.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rocket -- Changes in the atmosphere -- A great company of men -- The first and true inventor -- A very great quantity of heat -- Science in his hands -- The whole thing was arranged in my mind -- Master of them all -- A field that is endless -- Quite splendid with a file -- To give England the power of cotton -- Wealth of nations -- Strong steam -- The fuel of interest.

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