The Most Powerful Idea In The World Summary

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: a Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention is for readers in high school and above. It is a longer book with complex details that utilizes an extensive vocabulary. In The Most Powerful Idea in the World: a Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention, the author discussed how people had the right through British law to own ideas and profit from them. This enabled the Industrial Revolution to take place and ideas such as steam power to be created. The steam engine went through a series of events that formed it into the successful invention it became. It started off as an initial design that was modified into an engine that powered factories wheels of mills, along with new ways of transportation. It was used in ships and railroads.

There, he analyzed how industrialization impacted the economy in Britain. Ure later taught at Anderson College where he where a professor of natural philosophy and chemistry. Andrew wrote other books such as Dictionary of Chemistry, New System of Geology, The Revenue in Jeopardy from Spurious Chemistry, and The General Malaria of London. The main purpose of this text was to explain how the Industrial Revolution in Britain was the process of machines taking over the work of humans. It explained how one of the major inventions that initiated the revolution was the steam engine. Andrew Ure published other books in this field such as Account of the Cotton Industry and the Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines. In The Philosophy of Manufactures, he takes an economic standpoint and explains how it was impacted by the steam engine. The author was not biased and he was knowledgeable about the Industrial Revolution through his experience in factories. This book is for students grades nine and up because of the difficult vocabulary and the background knowledge that is needed to best understand the