Title: The industrial revolutionaries : the making of the modern world, 1776-1914 /
Authors: Weightman, Gavin.
Publisher: Grove Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Industrial revolution.; Industrialists.
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.