The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World, 1776-1914

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World, 1776-1914
ISBN-10
1843545845
ISBN-13
9781843545842
Pages
422
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Author
Gavin Weightman

Description

Interweaves accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another, like the young Japanese Samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of Western industrial might.

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