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Atlantic Books, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and c enturies, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of industrial innovation to life."---The New York Times Book Review In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, s pies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and p owered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new , forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. In The I ndustrial Revolutionaries, a sweeping, critically acclaimed history of this transformation, Gavin Weightman weaves together the dramatic stories of gi ants such as Edison, Watt, Wedgwood, and Daimler, with lesser-known or enti rely forgotten characters. Distilling complex technical achievements, outla ndish figures, and daring adventure, The Industrial Revolutionaries is a re markable, original history…
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The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914 Paperback - 2008
by Gavin Weightman
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- Title The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914
- Author Gavin Weightman
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 432
- Publisher Atlantic Books
- Date 2008-04
- ISBN 9781741032758
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