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Author:   Ben Marsden
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 9.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780231131728

ISBN 10:   0231131720
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   12 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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An informative and well-organized introduction to Watt... Recommended [for] general readers, lower-division undergraduates, and two-year technical program students. -- Choice Marsden declaims on the steam engine's putative inventor in a half-bemused, half-impressed tone that will amuse technology buffs in addition to giving them an appreciation for Watt's significance... Crystal clear on technical points, Marsden is archly amusing in discussing how reputations are made. -- Booklist A lively historical coverage of how the engine evolved and reflected not only the promise, but the problems of the industrial revolution. A fine, wide-ranging history. -- Bookwatch An engagingly written little book. -- Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Issue 20

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Ben Marsden is a lecturer in cultural history and the history of science at the University of Aberdeen.

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