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Engineering Empires
A Cultural History of Technology in
Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith
Engineering Empires
Also by Ben Marsden
WATT’S PERFECT ENGINE: Steam and the Age of Invention (2002)
Also by Crosbie Smith
ENERGY AND EMPIRE: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin
(with Norton Wise, 1989)
THE SCIENCE OF ENERGY: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain
(1998)
Engineering Empires
A Cultural History of Technology in
Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ben Marsden
and
Crosbie Smith
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Marsden, Ben.
Engineering Empires : a cultural history of technology in
nineteenth-century Britain / Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–333–77278–4
1. Technology—Social aspects—Great Britain. I. Smith, Crosbie.
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