ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |3 pages

Table of Contents

chapter |2 pages

INTRODUCTION: The Speed of Change

chapter |6 pages

PART I. NEW SOURCES OF POWER

chapter |6 pages

POWER FROM THE ATOM

chapter |6 pages

THE TURBINE

chapter |6 pages

THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

chapter |8 pages

POWER FROM OIL

chapter |11 pages

THE AGE OF STEEL

chapter |2 pages

SYNTHETIC MATERIALS

chapter |2 pages

CHEMICALS FROM COAL

chapter |4 pages

CHEMICALS FROM PETROLEUM

chapter |4 pages

THE STORY OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER

chapter |5 pages

PLASTICS

chapter |9 pages

NEW TEXTILES: MAN-MADE FIBRES

chapter |4 pages

THE RISE OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY

chapter |4 pages

TOWARDS AUTOMATION

chapter |1 pages

THINGS TO DO

chapter |1 pages

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