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Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making Of The Modern World 1776-1914 (2007)

by Gavin Weightman(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0802118992 (ISBN13: 9780802118998)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Grove Press

review 1: I already love this book. Very well researched. this is the authoritative work on the industrial revolution. It gives names and ties them to today, "Promoters of railways.. were just as important to their establishment as the people who built them." As the book states, the narrative stops in 1914, "all the essentials are by then in place." I feel transported to some machine museum in britain by reading.
review 2: To me, a welcome non-academic, jargoncrap work of history, this one focusing on how "inventors" of things (Watt, Edison, etc.) were actually full of crap and were merely innovators on ideas that other people had had. The Industrial Revolution was about the creative spirit? Hogwash, says Weightman. These assholes just wanted to make some cash! That asid... moree, this is an entertaining and light look at how things like steel, light bulbs, and bicycles (that part was great!) came about. There are some good sections on the industrialization of Japan, too. Lots of enterprising young samurai apparently snuck off the island to learn the tricks and trades of the Europeans. less

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