Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
Author
Smiles, Samuel,
Title
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
Note
Reading ease score: (10th to 12th grade).
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Somewhat difficult to read.
Contents
Iron and civilization -- Beginnings of the iron manufacturer in Britain -- Iron-smelting by pit-coal; Dud Dudley -- Andrew Yarranton -- Coalbrookdale Iron-works; The Darbys and Reynoldses -- Invention of cast-steel; Benjamin Huntsman -- The inventions of Henry Cort -- The Scotch iron manufacture; Dr.
Roebuck; David Mushet -- Invention of the hot-blast; James Beaumont Neilson -- Mechanical inventions and inventors -- Joseph Bramah -- Henry Maudslay -- Joseph Clement -- Fox of Derby; Murray of Leeds; Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester -- James Nasmyth -- William Fairbairn.
Summary
"Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers" by Samuel Smiles is a historical account written in the midth century that celebrates the contri