Power from Steam
Power from Steam

Author: Richard L. Hills

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-08-19

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521458344

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.

The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848

Author: Maxine Berg

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1982-02-04

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521287593

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.