Engineering empires : A cultural hisrory of technology in nineteeth-century britain

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers an...

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Tác giả chính: Marsden, Ben
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Được phát hành: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2005
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