Men of Invention and Industry
Details:
- Author(s) Smiles, Samuel
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1884
- Pages 390pp
- Publisher John Murray
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Several subsequent editions. Early biographical accounts framed in the tradition of the 'heroic' inventor. Deals with, inter alia, John Lombe, silk manufacturer; John Harrison, chronometer maker; William Clowes, printer; Walters family of The Times, printers; shipbuilding industry. Individual chapters covered in separate BHE entries