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The sweeping true story of how the steam engine changed the world, from the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure
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.
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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.
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Columbia University Press
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[2002]
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English
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Examines the facts behind the accomplishments of James Watt, the Scottish inventor remembered for his development of the separate-condenser steam engine, looks at how his reputation was made, and charges his twenty-five-year monopoly on steam power actually stifled innovation.
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