The industrial revolutionaries : the creation of the modern world, 1776-1914 / Gavin Weightman
2007, First Edition. London : Atlantic. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #438735
ISBN: 9781843545842
Physical description; ix, 422 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-406) and index. Contents; Spies -- Mad about iron -- The toolbag travellers -- The Cornishman's puffer -- They kept their heads -- Some Yankees in the works -- The railway men -- Cowcatchers and timber tracks -- Les rosbifs go to work -- A prophet without honour -- A blast of hot air -- Morse decoded -- The palace of wonders -- "A very handsome tail" -- The petroleum pioneers -- The steel revolution -- Of Scots and Samurai -- Horsepower -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- The terror of the torpedo -- The synthetic world. Subjects; Industrial revolution. Industrialists. Technological innovations History. Industrialization History.
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