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The story of Rocket an iconic steam locomotive designed by Robert Stevenson and now on display in London’s British Science Museum serves as the introduction and thrilling ending to The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen’s fascinating book about the Industrial Revolution.
Listening to Michael Prichard read Rosen’s thoroughly researched book feels like sitting in on a phenomenal college lecture. Prichard’s matter-of-fact intonation perfectly suits Rosen’s material and is reminiscent of a narrator you might hear on a History Channel documentary.
The book essentially explains how the Industrial Revolution evolved and explores the innovations that led to the creation of Rocket. Rosen examines steam power, pistons, heat, privacy laws, and some of the other famous early mechanized inventions, and reveals why many of these innovations occurred in England and Scotland and not elsewhere in Europe or the rest of the world. By themselves, the various topics can at first seem completely unrelated. But Rosen makes a persuasive argument and clearly illustrates how one small innovation after another led to the creation of the modern steam engine, which literally served as the driving force of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution.
Many historical books can be very dry and hard to comprehend, but Rosen delivers his descriptions about many of the world’s first modern machines in a way that’s engaging and easy to understand. The Most Powerful Idea in the World will make you look at the world in a completely different way and give you a greater appreciation for the machines we so often take for granted in our modern society. Ken Ross
Resumen del Editor
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line - until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it - the steam engine. In the process, he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: What made 18th-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors? Rosen's answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined in British law the century before: that people had the right to own and profit from their ideas.
The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving particularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces the steam engine's history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdy machine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of mills and factories, to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight by rail and by sea. Along the way, we enter the minds of such inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt; scientists, including Robert Boyle and Joseph Black; and philosophers John Locke and Adam Smith - all of whose insights, tenacity, and ideas transformed first a nation and then the world.
Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the "aha!" moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining explanations of science. The Most Powerful Idea in the World will appeal to anyone who is fascinated with history, science, and the hows and whys of innovation itself.
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In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently.
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A Good Read Spoiled
- De David A. Donnelly en 12-23-16
De: David Wootton
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The Chip
- How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
- De: T.R. Reid
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Barely 50 years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000.
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Great narration, sloppy writing
- De Constantly Learning en 10-06-22
De: T.R. Reid
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The Dawn of Innovation
- The First American Industrial Revolution
- De: Charles R. Morris
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer and the most intensely commercialized society in history.
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How our industries started
- De Jean en 02-22-13
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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The New York Times best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
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Somewhat less than perfect
- De enya keshet en 06-19-18
De: Simon Winchester
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Radical Abundance
- How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
- De: K. Eric Drexler
- Narrado por: Tim Pabon
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology - the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy and environment.
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Drexler Rehashes the Past
- De David en 10-19-13
De: K. Eric Drexler
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Evolution
- The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
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An Excellent History!
- De Bradly D. Elder en 08-13-07
De: Edward J. Larson
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- De: David Wootton
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
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In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently.
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A Good Read Spoiled
- De David A. Donnelly en 12-23-16
De: David Wootton
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The Chip
- How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
- De: T.R. Reid
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Barely 50 years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000.
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Great narration, sloppy writing
- De Constantly Learning en 10-06-22
De: T.R. Reid
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The Dawn of Innovation
- The First American Industrial Revolution
- De: Charles R. Morris
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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In the 30 years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer and the most intensely commercialized society in history.
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How our industries started
- De Jean en 02-22-13
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Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
- How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
- De: Robert Bryce
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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In this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.
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I thought I was getting a book on the future.
- De Grant en 08-02-14
De: Robert Bryce
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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- De: Craig R. Roach
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk, and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling, and often dangerous story of electricity's historic discovery, development, and worldwide application.
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decent, but ended up disappointing.
- De Alexander Douglass en 12-28-18
De: Craig R. Roach
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The Golden Thread
- How Fabric Changed History
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Helen Johns
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization - from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole).
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Excellent for those interested in textiles
- De Adeliese Baumann en 12-14-19
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Cyberspies
- The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 17 h y 54 m
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As the digital era becomes increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world; what was once the preserve of a few intelligence agencies now affects us all. Corera's compelling narrative takes us from the Second World War through the Cold War and the birth of the Internet to the present era of hackers and surveillance. The book is rich with historical detail and characters as well as astonishing revelations about espionage carried out in recent times by the United Kingdom, the United States, and China.
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One in a Million
- De CJA en 10-15-16
De: Gordon Corera
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- De: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
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Perhaps multiply his time estimates by 10
- De Rick en 11-06-21
De: Steven Kotler, y otros
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The Wars of the Roses
- The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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The 15th century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. Now, celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these turbulent times.
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No Need for a Score Card
- De Troy en 01-16-15
De: Dan Jones
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Most Powerful Idea in the World
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- Joshua Kim
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In William Rosen's masterful new book, The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention, the most powerful idea is not the invention of the steam engine. Rather, the title refers to the development of the concept that ideas can be property, and that through the availability of patent law and capital, individuals tinkerers can become industrial scale innovators.
Rosen notes that: "From 1700 to 2000, the world's population has increased twelvefold - but its production of goods and services a hundredfold". (page 316) Will the innovations around digital technology, from cheap and powerful mobile computing devices to robust cloud based applications, bring about a commensurate rise in productivity as the industrial revolution? The steam engine allowed the cost of energy to come down rapidly, through its original use as the power source to pump out coal mines to its subsequent use in locomotives to bring down the costs of transporting coal. Today, it is less clear if digital technologies can bring about similar improvements in the productivity of education (increased access and quality at reduced costs), that the steam engine did for energy productivity in the 18th and 19th centuries.
It is ironic that the very intellectual property protections that catalyzed the willingness of inventors and entrepreneurs to invest their energy and money into the steam engine that are perhaps retarding innovations in education. Much of our current economic prosperity is built on the concept that ideas are property, yet many of the barriers to extending learning at low cost run up against this principle. Efforts to extend the infrastructure and content of learning outside of the marketplace, through open source and open educational content, have failed to significantly bring costs down or increase access.
Are we in the midst of an educational revolution powered by technology? Or are we grafting new technologies on old structures, changing education only at the margins?
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- Tom C. Barros-Wing
- 12-13-12
Excellent book, hypnotic reading voice
If you could sum up The Most Powerful Idea in the World in three words, what would they be?
Interesting, wide-reaching, informative storytelling
Who was your favorite character and why?
N/A (nonfiction)
Have you listened to any of Michael Prichard’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
This was the first one I've heard. Other reviewers said they hated his reading, that it was too slow. And yet others said you get used to it in no time. I completely agree. After the first five minutes or so, this book is gripping enough on its own for the relatively slow reading pace to feel fine. And I liked the timbre of Michael Prichard's voice, once it got into me.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I could have, but I bought it with the intention of spacing it out. It might be just too long and too information-packed to do that. But I never got bored of it.
Any additional comments?
Occasional jokes in the narrative or footnotes (which the narrator reads) gave me a positive feeling about the author of this generally quite scholarly book. It was definitely worked into a book that anyone with a little bit of attention span could enjoy, though most people who don't like to read printed books in general wouldn't be able to sit through this. You have to be a little curious about the Industrial Revolution, but just a pinch of curiosity will get you in the door, and William Rosen will take you the rest of the way.
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- The Mays-Dickens Family
- 05-12-12
Fascinating look at the rise of invention
Would you consider the audio edition of The Most Powerful Idea in the World to be better than the print version?
Reading non-fiction puts me to sleep. Listening to it fires my imagination. The Most Powerful Idea in the World did this especially well. I enjoyed it so much that when it ended I wanted to start it over from the beginning again.
What does Michael Prichard bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?
One of the better narrators I've listened to lately, Mr Prichard gave a varied enough performance to keep me listening eagerly.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I loved it when the author compared Aristotle's theory on why vacuums were impossible to the Monty Pynthon skit about witches!
Any additional comments?
As an author doing research on the times from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution, this book was the best overview.
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- Steve Mastny
- 04-25-12
Insightful mechanical history
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I'd reccomend this book to lovers of history or the mechanically or technically inclined. If you're a combination of the two, this book will be very much right up your alley. It affords an entertaining way to expand upon both historical and technical knowledge.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Most Powerful Idea in the World?
A summing up of the book's premise via a historical Abraham Lincoln speech at the end of the epilogue.
Which scene was your favorite?
There wasn't really one in particular, though describing Coke's marriage as the worst decision of his life does jump to mind.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Not particularly, this one lent itself to episodic listening quite well, as it is mostly pretty interesting, but isn't really plot driven in any significant sense.
Any additional comments?
The occasional authors notes tended to be a nice little bonus.
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- FrequentAmazonBuyer
- 01-11-23
A bit dry but great historical summary
Provides interesting depth to the industrial revolution, and how patents played a motivating role to inventors.. A good read or listen.
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- Roy
- 08-01-10
A Revelation about a Revolution
Essentially, this book tells the story of the invention and development of the steam engine. Rosen has taken this story from the Industrial Revolution through great story telling and incorporation of subplots. I was surprised by the result. The book exceeded my expectations in terms of content, presentation, and impact. I had never given the steam engine much thought and I regret my oversight. Rosen writes well, Michael Prichard's reading is outstanding. If you want to know something about the Industrial Revolution this is a good book. If you are not interested in the Industrial Revolution - try this volume anyway.
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- chris
- 04-05-12
Well done early steam engine history
A well written and read rendition of mechanical engineering history. Entertaining to those into just that. Exhaustive and accurate investigative work with many interesting sidebars. I liked the links between mechanical ideas that were apparently forming simultaneously within Europe and Asia early on as well as the demographic effects the mechanical ages have had on North America and Europe. Wish it had ventured into greater detail the history in the latter half of the 19th century than it did. Overall well covered but will seem dry listening to anyone not appreciating engineering and steam power development.
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- Andy
- 02-05-13
detailed, comprehensive and illuminating
Full of great detail and color on the many people and things that led to the steam driven locomotive. Great narration too!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-18-11
Fascinating text, narration doesn't detract.
Another reviewer spoke negatively of Michael Prichard's narration, complaining about the unusually slow pacing. I nearly passed on this audiobook as a result, but since I found the subject material compelling I took a chance. I'm glad I did. Mr. Rosen's text is fascinating, wide-ranging, often funny, and never boring. This is not a dry tome rehashing the old commonplaces about the Industrial Revolution, but a broad panorama that takes in the science, sociology, economics, law, and culture that allowed mankind to leap from eons of miserable subsistence to a sustainable real prosperity at a particular moment in history. The best thing I can say about Mr. Pritchard's narration is that, after an initial adjustment, I became unaware of it. Poor narrators have killed books for me in the past, but this did not happen here. Granted, Mr. Pritchard's pauses for punctuation are inordinately long, but I really didn't mind. I never found myself waiting impatiently for a sentence to end - maybe because the concepts introduced occupy the mind (or at least my mind) too thoroughly. The narration is a bit unusual, but the text is outstanding. On balance I have no difficulty recommending this audiobook.
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- Dudley Doright 49
- 04-10-12
a great story!
What did you love best about The Most Powerful Idea in the World?
I think this is the best overall look at the industrialization of the world that I have ever read. It touches not only on the how and why of the IR, but looks at some of the emotional aspects as well as scientific. My avocation is wood turning, and Mr. Rosen made a pretty good stab at why some of us do these things. The pride & satisfaction of producing a beautiful and useful item is a very valuable thing in itself. I do have to take exception to the use of the terms CE and BCE because believe me, what happened when Christ was here briefly was not common but extraordinary.
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