The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Time

An earlier book in this series told the story of the Industrial Revolution which took place between the years 1760 and i860. It was a revolution resulting from the introduction of a new form of power-steam power. This text looks at another industrial revolution which has taken place in the hundred years or so since then and brought about again by the introduction of new sources of power: power from electricity, power from oil and, latest of all, power from the atom.

Mary Beggs-Humphreys, D.W.Humphreys

Introduction: The Speed of Change Part 1: New Sources of Power 1. Electric Power 2. Power from the Atom 3. The Turbine 4. The Internal Combustion Engine 5. Power from Oil Part 2: New Materials and New Processes 6. The Age of Steel 7. Synthetic Materials 8. Chemicals from Coal 9. Chemicals from Petroleum 10. The Story of Synthetic Rubber, Plastics 11. New Textiles: Man-Made Fibres 12. The Rise of the Electronics Industry 13. Towards Automaton 14. Things to Do 15. Book List 16 Some Important Events, Discoveries and Inventions