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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
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.
