Iron Men : How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World
Iron Men : How One London Factory Powered
the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World
by David Waller
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783085444 | 230 Pages | ePUB | 1.14 MB
the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World
by David Waller
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783085444 | 230 Pages | ePUB | 1.14 MB
In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, a stone's throw from the Thames. His workshop became in its day the equivalent of Google and Apple combined, attracting the country's best in engineering talent. Their story of innovation and ambition tells how precision engineering made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop of the world.
"With wit, assurance and dexterity, Iron Men captures the ingenuity, determination and defiance of a small group of Britons whose inventions made their country the epicenter of technology. The early nineteenth-century inventors, who created the automatic spinning mule, devised the micrometer, standardized the manufacturing of screws and bolts and concocted the steam engine, had an influence as widespread as that enjoyed today by companies in Silicon Valley and China. David Waller has composed a absorbing tale of man's ability to create a lot from a little." - Sir Michael Moritz, Chairman, Sequoia Capital