The industrial revolutionaries : the making of the modern world, 1776-1914 / Gavin Weightman.
Weightman, Gavin.
2007
HD2321 .W45 2007b (Mapit)
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Title The industrial revolutionaries : the making of the modern world, 1776-1914 / Gavin Weightman.
Author Weightman, Gavin.
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 9780802118998
0802118992
Imprint New York : Grove Press, c2007.
Language English
Description ix, 422 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number HD2321 .W45 2007b
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.09
Summary In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, 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.
Note Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-406) and index.
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Mad about iron
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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.

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