The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention  enlarge Author: William Rosen Publisher: Random House Category: Book List Price: $28.00 Buy New: $10.87 as of 2/9/2012 09:23 PST details You Save: $17.13 (61%) In Stock New (40) Used (29) Collectible (3) from $8.11 Seller: Clean Earth Books Sales Rank: 266,570 Format: Deckle Edge Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Pages: 400 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 1.1 x 9.5 ISBN: 1400067057 EAN: 9781400067053 ASIN: 1400067057 Publication Date: June 1, 2010 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Features:   •  ISBN13: 9781400067053   •  Condition: New   •  Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Similar Items: A Brief History of the Age of Steam: From the First Engine to the Boats and Railways Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Soldiers, Statesmen and July 1914 The Leopard: A Novel Editorial Reviews: Product Description 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, William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it—the steam engine. In the process he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: What made eighteenth-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors? Rosen’s answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined in British law the century before: that people had the right to own and profit from their ideas.     The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving particularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces the steam engine’s history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdy machine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of mills and factories, to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight by rail and by sea. Along the way we enter the minds of such inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt, scientists including Robert Boyle and Joseph Black, and philosophers John Locke and Adam Smith—all of whose insights, tenacity, and ideas transformed first a nation and then the world.   William Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the “aha!” moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining explanations of science. The Most Powerful Idea in the World will appeal to readers fascinated with history, science, and the hows and whys of innovation itself.

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