The Industrial Revoltionaries The Creation of the Modern World, 1776-1914 |
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| Author:
| Weightman, Gavin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84354-584-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Interweaves accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another, like the young Japanese Samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of Western industrial might.
Interweaves accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another, like the young Japanese Samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of Western industrial might.