Cavendish

Cavendish
Author: Christa Jungnickel
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838754450

"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.

Stronger Than a Hundred Men

Stronger Than a Hundred Men
Author: Terry S. Reynolds
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801872488

Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during the Industrial Revolution. Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.