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Iron men : how the early Victorians invented engineering / by David Waller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, David, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Engineers.
- Engineering.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Engineering--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Industrial revolution--Great Britain.
- Industrial revolution.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth. Attracting the best in engineering talent, this factory became the pre-Victorian equivalent of Google and Apple combined. Iron Men is a nuts-and-bolts history of Maudslay's engineering enterprise, a feet that made the Industrial Revolution possible and helped Great Britain become the workshop of the world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Making Blocks and Boring Machines - the Portsmouth Block Factory 1
- Chapter 2 Maudslay's - the Most Complete Factory in the Kingdom 21
- Chapter 3 The Maudslay Men 41
- Chapter 4 The Thames Tunnel - a Wonderful Undertaking 53
- Chapter 5 Richard Roberts and the Iron Man of Manchester 63
- Chapter 6 Charles Babbage, Joseph Clement and the Mechanization of Thought 79
- Chapter 7 The True Birth of the Railways 89
- Chapter 8 James Hall Nasmyth - the Steam Hammer and Entrepreneurial Triumph in Manchester 101
- Chapter 9 The Maudslay Men and the Transport Revolution 119
- Chapter 10 The Turn of the Screws - Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Quest for Mechanical Perfection 139
- Chapter 11 The Americans Are Coming - the Great Exhibition and the Great Lock Controversy of 1851 147
- Chapter 12 Capital vs. Labour - the Great Lockout of 1852 159
- Chapter 13 Instruments of Destruction 171
- Chapter 14 Endings and Legacies 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783085446
- 1783085444
- OCLC:
- 956633500
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