The Industrial Revolutionaries : : the Making of the Modern World, 1776-1914
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Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2007.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Grove Press, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: ix, 422 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780802118998
0802118992
SUBJECTS
Industrial revolution.
Industrialists.