1st Edition
The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Time
An earlier book in this series told the story of the Industrial Revolution which took place between the years 1760 and i860. It was a revolution resulting from the introduction of a new form of power—steam power. This text looks at another industrial revolution which has taken place in the hundred years or so since then and brought about again by the introduction of new sources of power: power from electricity, power from oil and, latest of all, power from the atom.
Introduction: The Speed of Change
PART I: NEW SOURCES OF POWER
Electric power
Power from the atom
The turbine
The internal combustion engine
Power from oil
PART II: NEW MATERIALS AND NEW PROCESSES
The age of steel
Synthetic materials
Chemicals from coal
Chemicals from petroleum
The story of synthetic rubber, plastics
New Textiles: man-made fibres
The rise of the Electronics industry
Towards automaton
Things to do
Book list
Some important events, discoveries and inventions
Biography
Mary Beggs-Humphreys, D.W.Humphreys
