The Industrial Revolution Explained

Steam, Sparks and Massive Wheels

• Author(s): Stan Yorke,
• Publisher: Countryside Books
• Pages: 128
• ISBN_10: 1853069353
  ISBN_13: 9781853069352
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic History , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Modern / 18th Century , History / Social History , Technology & Engineering / Machinery , Technology & Engineering / History ,

Description:... Ingenuity and invention, new sources of power, better manufacturing methods and expanding transport systems helped England become the world's leading industrial power by 1851 This book examines the waterwheel, the steam engine, the mechanisation of textile production and iron and how the use of these created our industrial world.