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The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History

机译:世界历史上的工业革命百科全书

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This is a workmanlike reference book with an eye to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By the time it reaches the mid-twentieth century it begins to run out of steam. The revolution was over. Let us start therefore by establishing few facts about the periods under review. The industrial revolution, first phase, consisted of iron, steel, textile and railway development, all powered by steam; it was complete by the mid-nineteenth century. The second phase comprising electricity, automotive and chemical advances, plastics and processed food occupied the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. Our own age centres around computers, electronics and bio-technology and is ongoing. Professor Hendrickson's volumes cover phases one and two but have much less to say about the third. Thus, an early entry is Thomas Savery, the Devonshire man who, in 1698, produced one of the first steam engines; it was liable to blow up when in use but he started the ball rolling. A later figure was Leo Baekeland, the Belgian-American chemist who, in 1907, produced "Bakelite", the thermoset plastic much used in electrical switchgear.
机译:这是一本类似于工人的参考书,着眼于18世纪和19世纪。到了二十世纪中叶,它开始枯竭。革命结束了。因此,让我们首先确定有关审查期间的事实。第一阶段的工业革命包括钢铁,钢铁,纺织和铁路发展,全部由蒸汽驱动。到19世纪中叶才完成。第二阶段包括电力,汽车和化学技术的进步,塑料和加工食品,占据了十九世纪末/二十世纪初。我们自己的年龄以计算机,电子产品和生物技术为中心,并且还在持续发展。亨德里克森教授的书涵盖了第一阶段和第二阶段,但是关于第三阶段的论述则少得多。因此,德文郡人托马斯·萨维里(Thomas Savery)早在1698年就出生了,他生产了第一批蒸汽机。使用时容易爆炸,但他开始滚球。后来的人物是比利时裔美国化学家利奥·贝克兰(Leo Baekeland),他于1907年生产了“电木”,一种用于电气开关设备的热固性塑料。

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