The Industrial Revolutionaries

“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world ( The Seattle Times ). In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. This “entertaining and informative” account weaves together