The industrial revolutionaries
Subtitle: the making of the modern world, 1776-1914
By: Gavin Weightman.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780802118998
Subjects: Industrial revolution; Industrialists
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-406) and index.
Table of contents: title: Spies; title: Mad about iron; title: The toolbag travellers; title: The Cornishman's puffer; title: They kept their heads; title: Some Yankees in the works; title: The railway men; title: Cowcatchers and timber tracks; title: Les rosbifs go to work; title: A prophet without honour; title: A blast of hot air; title: Morse decoded; title: The palace of wonders; title: 'A very handsome tail'; title: The petroleum pioneers; title: The steel revolution; title: Of Scots and Samurai; title: Horsepower; title: The wizard of Menlo Park; title: The terror of the torpedo; title: The synthetic world.