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Engineering Empires

A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
By:B. Marsden; C. Smith
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780333772782
eText ISBN:9780230504127
Edition:0
Copyright:2005
Format:Page Fidelity

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Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.