Today, let s read an old book about a new world. The University of Houston s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
It s 1832. Our 20th century world is just a premonition in people s minds. The forty years of upheaval that began with the American Revolution finally ended when Napoleon lost at Waterloo. Now America and England are turning themselves into industrial nations. England is far ahead, but we re closing the gap faster than anyone realizes. In 1832, a small yearbook came out in London. It was called,
Arcana of Science and Art. The