1863 Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Fifteenth thousand. A collection of writings on the developments and changes to industrial work, with reference to iron workers and tool makers. This work goes from discussions on the use of iron in early civilizations and the beginnings of iron manufacture in Britain, to contemporary inventors and inventions. With chapters on the lives and work of Andrew Yarranton, Benjamin Huntsman, Dud Dudley, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Clement and more. Written by Samuel Smiles, a British author and government reformer. Best known for his work Self-Help (1859) which promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government.