The Industrial Revolutionaries
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The Industrial Revolutionaries

The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914

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The Industrial Revolutionaries

The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914

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"Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy" this account of how industry transformed the world ( The Seattle Times ). In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. This "entertaining and informative" account weaves together the dramatic stories of giants such as Edison, Watt, Wedgwood, and Daimler with lesser-known or entirely forgotten characters, including a group of Japanese samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of the West, and John "Iron Mad" Wilkinson, who didn't let war between England and France stop him from plumbing Paris ( The Wall Street Journal ). "Integrating lively biography with technological clarity, Weightman converts the Industrial Revolution into an enjoyably readable period of history." — Booklist "Skillfully stitching together thumbnail sketches of a large number of inventors, architects, engineers, and visionaries.... Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of industrial innovation to life." — The New York Times Book Review

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Publisher
Grove Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781555848859
Topic
History
Subtopic
19th Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. The Industrial Revolutionaries
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List Of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Spies
  9. 2 Mad About Iron
  10. 3 The Toolbag Travellers
  11. 4 The Cornishman’s Puffer
  12. 5 They Kept Their Heads
  13. 6 Some Yankees in the Works
  14. 7 The Railway Men
  15. 8 Cowcatchers and Timber Tracks
  16. 9 Les Rosbifs go to Work
  17. 10 A Prophet Without Honour
  18. 11 A Blast of Hot Air
  19. 12 Morse Decoded
  20. 13 The Palace of Wonders
  21. 14 ‘A Very Handsome Tail’
  22. 15 The Petroleum Pioneers
  23. 16 The Steel Revolution
  24. 17 Of Scots and Samurai
  25. 18 Horsepower
  26. 19 The Wizard of Menlo Park
  27. 20 The Terror of the Torpedo
  28. 21 The Synthetic World
  29. Postscript
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index