Engineering Empires

By B Marsden, C. Smith, Crosbie Smith, Ben Marsden, Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith (Auth.)

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technol...

Watt'S Perfect Engine: Steam And The Age Of Invention

By Ben Marsden, Stedman Jones, Gareth

In the 1790s, scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States inspired political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas...

Engineering Empires: A Cultural History Of Technology In Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Crosbie Smith, Ben Marsden, BEN MARSDEN, Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith (Auth.)

Engineers Are Empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson And A Host Of Less Well Known Figures Worked To Build And Expand Personal And Business Empires Of Material Tech...

Engineering Empires

By B Marsden, C. Smith, Ben Marsden, B. Marsden; C. Smith, Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith (Auth.)

This book will provide a compact scholarly introduction to major issues in the cultural history of science and technology in Britain and the British Empire between 1760 and 1914. Key themes will in...

W. J. M Rankine 1820-1872

By Ben Marsden

Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science And Literature, 1800-1914

By Hazel Hutchinson, Ben Marsden, Ralph O'Connor

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directl...

Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science And Literature, 1800-1914

By Hazel Hutchinson, Ben Marsden, Ralph O'Connor

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directl...

Uncommon Contexts

By Hazel Hutchinson, Ben Marsden, Ralph O'Connor

Engineering Empires

By Crosbie Smith, Ben Marsden, Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith (Auth.)

This book will provide a compact scholarly introduction to major issues in the cultural history of science and technology in Britain and the British Empire between 1760 and 1914. Key themes will in...

Uncommon Contexts

By Hazel Hutchinson, Ben Marsden, Ralph O'Connor

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directl...