Book 2010

Industrial Revolutionaries

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Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Language: English
Published: 2010

Industrial revolution
Industrialists
History
Inventions
Inventors
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Industriële revolutie

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.