(Paperback)

"For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest

(Hardback)

(Paperback, Revised edition)

In this thoroughly revised and updated new edition of their classic bestselling guide to basic principles of science, Hazen and Trefil take into account the most recent developments, from particle physics to biotechnology.