David Waller

Iron Men (eBook, ePUB)

How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life and work of Henry Maudslay and his followers

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783085477
• Artikelnr.: 45970619

Autorenporträt

David Waller is an author, business consultant and former Financial Times journalist specialising in business and the nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

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