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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
Author: 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 The Most Powerful Idea in the World,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400067053
ISBN-10: 1400067057
Publication Date: 6/1/2010
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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