Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith

Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith

256 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

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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 technology founded on and sustained by durable networks o...

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