Author(s): Gavin Weightman

SECONDHAND BOOKS | HISTORY

Interweaves accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another, like the young Japanese Samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of Western industrial might.

2007. First edition. A fine, unmarked and unread copy in a fine, unclipped d/w.