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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: David Waller
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2016
• EAN: 9781783085446
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-544-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories