Name: Energy: A Human History
Author: Richard Rhodes
ISBN: 9781501105357

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RHODES, Richard

Energy: A Human History

2018

1. History 2. Science and Tech

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Richard Rhodes Energy: A Human History Overview On a snowy Saturday three days after Christmas 1598, a gang of workmen tore down a playhouse in the London suburb of Holywell and carted the timber to a warehouse on the Thames bank at Bridewell Stairs. The Burbage brothers owned the frames; their landlord owned the ground; and the reason the building was worth stealing rather than simply abandoning was that wood around London had become dear enough to steal. Shakespeare was there. The salvaged beams became the Globe. That is the…

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Accession:FL-0080

ISBN-13:9781501105357

Published:2018

Language:en

Shelved under:History, Science and Tech

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