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• catalog abstract ""In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; and the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestly, discover of oxygen and fighting radical." "With a small band of allies - the chemist James Keir, the doctors William Small and William Withering (the man who put digitalis on the medical map), and two wild young followers of Rousseau, Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Thomas Day - they formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham, so called because it met at each full moon, and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals; launched balloons; named plants, gases, and minerals; changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms; and plotted to revolutionize its soul."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12579936.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; and the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestly, discover of oxygen and fighting radical." "With a small band of allies - the chemist James Keir, the doctors William Small and William Withering (the man who put digitalis on the medical map), and two wild young followers of Rousseau, Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Thomas Day - they formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham, so called because it met at each full moon, and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals; launched balloons; named plants, gases, and minerals; changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms; and plotted to revolutionize its soul."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Earth, Elston & electricity -- 2. Toys -- 3. Scotland -- 4. The doctor's bag -- 5. Pots -- 6. Heading for Soho -- 7. Ingenious philosophers -- 8. Reaching out -- 9. Steam -- 10. They build canals -- 11. Painting the light -- 12. Magic & mechanics -- 13. Derbyshire explorata -- 14. Chemical reactions -- 15. Trials of life -- 16. Rousseau & romance -- 17. Vases, Ormolu, silver & frogs -- 18. Running the show -- 19. Eddies -- 20. Experiements on air -- 21. 'What all the world desires' -- 22. 'Bandy'd like a shuttlecock' -- 23. Plants & passions -- 24. Conquering Cornwall -- 25. Dull earth & shining stones -- 26. Creative copying -- 27. Sons & daughters -- 28. Bringing on the artists -- 29. From the nation to the land -- 30. Fire -- 31. Boulton's blazing skies -- 32. The Linnaean row -- 33. Protecting our interests -- 34. Family & feeling -- 35. Grand projects -- 36. Turning -- 37. Riots -- 38. Handing on -- 39. 'Fire engines & Sundry works' -- 40. 'Time is, time was.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-558) and index.".
• catalog extent "xx, 588 p., [16] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0374194408 (hc : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "609.2/241 B 21".
• catalog subject "Inventions Great Britain History.".
• catalog subject "Inventors Great Britain Biography.".
• catalog subject "Lunar Society of Birmingham (England)".
• catalog subject "Science Great Britain History.".
• catalog subject "Scientists Great Britain Biography.".
• catalog subject "T39 .U35 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Earth, Elston & electricity -- 2. Toys -- 3. Scotland -- 4. The doctor's bag -- 5. Pots -- 6. Heading for Soho -- 7. Ingenious philosophers -- 8. Reaching out -- 9. Steam -- 10. They build canals -- 11. Painting the light -- 12. Magic & mechanics -- 13. Derbyshire explorata -- 14. Chemical reactions -- 15. Trials of life -- 16. Rousseau & romance -- 17. Vases, Ormolu, silver & frogs -- 18. Running the show -- 19. Eddies -- 20. Experiements on air -- 21. 'What all the world desires' -- 22. 'Bandy'd like a shuttlecock' -- 23. Plants & passions -- 24. Conquering Cornwall -- 25. Dull earth & shining stones -- 26. Creative copying -- 27. Sons & daughters -- 28. Bringing on the artists -- 29. From the nation to the land -- 30. Fire -- 31. Boulton's blazing skies -- 32. The Linnaean row -- 33. Protecting our interests -- 34. Family & feeling -- 35. Grand projects -- 36. Turning -- 37. Riots -- 38. Handing on -- 39. 'Fire engines & Sundry works' -- 40. 'Time is, time was.".
• catalog title "The lunar men : five friends whose curiousity changed the world / Jenny Uglow.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".