Nonfiction · 1863
Industrial Biography
Iron Workers and Tool Makers
Industrial Biography, first published in 1863, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Chapter IV — Andrew Yarranton
- Chapter V — Coalbrookdale Iron Works—The Darbys and Reynoldses
- Chapter VI — Invention of Cast Steel—Benjamin Huntsman
- Chapter VII — The Inventions of Henry Cort
- Chapter VIII — The Scotch Iron Manufacture—Dr. Roebuck—David Mushet
- Chapter IX — Invention of the Hot Blast—James Beaumont Neilson
- Chapter X — Mechanical Inventions and Inventors
- Chapter XI — Joseph Bramah
- Chapter XII — Henry Maudslay
- Chapter XIII — Joseph Clement
- Chapter XIV — Fox of Derby—Murray of Leeds—Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester
- Chapter XV — James Nasmyth
- Chapter XVI — William Fairbairn
- Chapter I — Iron and Civilization
- Chapter II — Early English Iron Manufacture
- Chapter III — Iron-Smelting by Pit-Coal—Dud Dudley
- Chapter IV — Andrew Yarranton
- Chapter V — Coalbrookdale Iron Works—The Darbys and Reynoldses
- Chapter VI — Invention of Cast Steel—Benjamin Huntsman
- Chapter VII — The Inventions of Henry Cort
- Chapter VIII — The Scotch Iron Manufacture—Dr. Roebuck David Mushet
- Chapter IX — Invention of the Hot Blast—James Beaumont Neilson
- Chapter X — Mechanical Inventions and Inventors
- Chapter XI — Joseph Bramah
- Chapter XII — Henry Maudslay
- Chapter XIII — Joseph Clement
- Chapter XIV — Fox of Derby—Murray of Leeds—Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester
- Chapter XV — James Nasmyth
- Chapter XVI — William Fairbairn
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About the author
1812–1904 · Victorian
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was born in Haddington, Scotland, trained as a physician, and worked as a newspaper editor and railway administrator before finding lasting fame as a writer. Self-Help (1859), expanded from a series of lectures to a mutual improvement society of working men, argued that individual character, diligence, and perseverance — not birth or privilege — were the true engines of personal and national progress, illustrated throughout with brief biographical sketches of engineers, inventors, and self-made men; it became one of the best-selling books of the Victorian era and gave the English language its enduring sense of the phrase "self-help." He followed it with further books in the same vein, including Lives of the Engineers, a multi-volume study of the era's great civil engineers. He died in London at ninety-one.
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