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- 2009281209 abstract "In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels.".
- 2009281209 contributor B11464528.
- 2009281209 created "c2007.".
- 2009281209 date "2007".
- 2009281209 date "c2007.".
- 2009281209 dateCopyrighted "c2007.".
- 2009281209 description "In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels.".
- 2009281209 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-406) and index.".
- 2009281209 description "Spies -- Mad about iron -- The toolbag travellers -- The Cornishman's puffer -- They kept their heads -- Some Yankees in the works -- The railway men -- Cowcatchers and timber tracks -- Les rosbifs go to work -- A prophet without honour -- A blast of hot air -- Morse decoded -- The palace of wonders -- 'A very handsome tail' -- The petroleum pioneers -- The steel revolution -- Of Scots and Samurai -- Horsepower -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- The terror of the torpedo -- The synthetic world.".
- 2009281209 extent "ix, 422 p., [12] p. of plates :".
- 2009281209 identifier "0802118992".
- 2009281209 identifier "9780802118998".
- 2009281209 issued "2007".
- 2009281209 issued "c2007.".
- 2009281209 language "eng".
- 2009281209 publisher "New York : Grove Press,".
- 2009281209 subject "338.09 22".
- 2009281209 subject "HD2321 .W45 2007b".
- 2009281209 subject "Industrial revolution.".
- 2009281209 subject "Industrialists.".
- 2009281209 tableOfContents "Spies -- Mad about iron -- The toolbag travellers -- The Cornishman's puffer -- They kept their heads -- Some Yankees in the works -- The railway men -- Cowcatchers and timber tracks -- Les rosbifs go to work -- A prophet without honour -- A blast of hot air -- Morse decoded -- The palace of wonders -- 'A very handsome tail' -- The petroleum pioneers -- The steel revolution -- Of Scots and Samurai -- Horsepower -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- The terror of the torpedo -- The synthetic world.".
- 2009281209 title "The industrial revolutionaries : the making of the modern world, 1776-1914 / Gavin Weightman.".
- 2009281209 type "text".