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ix, 422 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
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. --from publisher description. |
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Industrial revolution.
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Industrialists.
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Industrial revolution. (OCoLC)fst00971658
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Industrialists. (OCoLC)fst00971815
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| ISBN |
9781843545842 (hbk.) |
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1843545845 (hbk.) |
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