Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

by Samuel Smiles

Book Overview

The Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across the tracks of celebrated inventors, mechanics, and iron-workers-the founders, in a great measure, of the modern industry of Britain-whose labours seemed to him well worthy of being traced out and placed on record, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517714656
• ISBN13: 9781517714659
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"