The Most Powerful Idea In The World - A Story Of Steam, Industry and Invention

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States that the most important invention of the Industrial Revolution was invention itself. This book offers an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas - and how invention itself springs forth from logic and imagination. It explains how 'eureka' moments occur - when the brain is most relaxed.

Subtitled, }A Story Of Steam, Industry & Invention{. A detailed and accessible history of how the world was transformed by steam power, from the author of }Justinian's Flea{.