The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Time [Paperback]

Introduction: The Speed of Change

PART I: NEW SOURCES OF POWER

Electric power

Power from the atom

The turbine

The internal combustion engine

Power from oil

PART II: NEW MATERIALS AND NEW PROCESSES

The age of steel

Synthetic materials

Chemicals from coal

Chemicals from petroleum

The story of synthetic rubber, plastics

New Textiles: man-made fibres

The rise of the Electronics industry

Towards automaton

Things to do

Book list

Some important events, discoveries and inventions