The who's who of-- the Industrial Revolution
By: Clive Gifford
Publisher: Wayland
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750272193
Subjects: Industrial revolution; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Industrial Revolution
Description: The Who's Who of the Industrial Revolution features such characters as Samuel Slater, the Englishman who introduced the cotton mill to the United States, starting a revolution in the American cotton industry, and Rover Owen, a reformer who helped form the first trade unions in Britain to secure better conditions for workers. [back cover].
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Includes: James Hargreaves; title: Richard Arkwright; title: Abraham Darby; title: Samuel Slater; title: James Brindley; title: James Watt; title: George Stephenson; title: Eli Whitney; title: Adam Smith; title: Robert Owen; title: Anthony Ashley-Cooper; title: Romanticism.