The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention

Jonathan Cape, London, 2010. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. List of illustrations, acknowledgements, notes and index. Black coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with the occasional black-and-white illustration. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper (wraparound) with black and dark brown coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Quoting the front fold over panel blurb " ... The most important invention of the Industrial Revolution was invention itself." Those words are at the heart of this remarkable book. The Most Powerful Idea in the World is more than a stunning history of the Industrial revolution and the steam engine at its call. It is an amazing account of how inventors first came to their own and profit from their ideas – and how invention itself springs for from logic and imagination."  Minor rubbing of the book edges with bumping along the top book edge and of the top book corners. Minor age toning of the text block edges and pages. 's a little creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with rubbing of the panels and a few handling marks are also present.  Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 370, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; ISBN: 0224082256. ISBN/EAN: 9780224082259. Inventory No: 50005. . 9780224082259