French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century

Shelby T. McCloy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2014
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-5386-5 (ISBN)

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The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the rival, if not the leader, of England.

In his book McCloy analyzes the factors that led to France's inventive activity in the eighteenth century. He also advances reasons for France's failure to profit from her inventive prowess at a time when England's inventions were being put to immediate and practical use.

Shelby T. McCloy, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, is the author of several books and articles on European history.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2014
Zusatzinfo	Illus
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8131-5386-7 / 0813153867
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-5386-5 / 9780813153865
Zustand	Neuware