Iron Men
How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World
Published on 22. April 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-78308-961-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, a stone's throw from the Thames. His workshop became in its day the equivalent of Google and Apple combined, attracting the country's best in engineering talent. Their story of innovation and ambition tells how precision engineering made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78308-961-1 (9781783089611)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
David Waller is an author, business consultant and former Financial Times journalist specialising in business and the nineteenth century.
Content
Preface: The Queen and the Machines; 1. Building Blocks and Boring Machines - The Portsmouth Block Factory; 2. Maudslays - The Most Complete Factory in the Kingdom; 3. The Maudslay Men; 4. A Wonderful Undertaking - The Thames Tunnel; 5. Richard Roberts and the Iron Man of Manchester; 6. Charles Babbage, Joseph Clement, and the Mechanization of Thought; 7. The True Birth of the Railways; 8. James Hall Nasmyth - The Steam-Hammer and Entrepreneurial Triumph in Manchester; 9. The Maudslay Men and the Transport Revolution; 10.The Turn of the Screws - Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Quest for Mechanical Perfection; 11. The Great Lock Controversy of 1851; 12. Capital vs Labour: The Great Lock-Out of 1852; 13. Instruments of Destruction; 14. Endings and Legacies