Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great (eBook)

The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution

Anthony Burton (Autor)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-299-0 (ISBN)

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Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and often fabricated accounts in his work. In Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great, Anthony Burton seeks to correct this narrative by offering nuanced portraits of some of the best-known engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Burton investigates the common themes that run between the stories of John Metcalf, James Brindley, John Smeaton, William Jessop, Thomas Telford, James Watt, Richard Trevithick, George and Robert Stephenson, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and also explores how each of these men learned from one another.

ANTHONY BURTON specialises in the history of technology and transport. His books include The Anatomy of Canals, The Iron Men, Miners, Navvies, and The Workers' War. He has been involved in over 100 TV documentaries, half as writer/presenter and others as historical adviser, including The Past at Work for the BBC and appeared as a guest expert on Coast, Reel History and Big, Bigger, Biggest. More recently he has been Historical Adviser for six ten-part series for Discovery that have involved visiting industrial sites in both Europe and America. He lives in Stroud.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 18th century british history • 19th century british history|Jack Metcalf • engineers biography • George and Robert Stephenson • Industrial History • industrial history biography • industrial revolution in britain • Isambard Brunel • James Brindley • James Watt • John Rennie • John Smeaton • Richard Trevithick • Samuel Smiles • The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution • Thomas Telford • william jessop
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-299-9 / 1803992999
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-299-0 / 9781803992990