Gillian Cookson

Making an Industrial Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805434405
• Artikelnr.: 72271509

Autorenporträt

GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian. She is the author of The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, published by The Boydell Press in 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. What people knew 2. Innovations in iron 3. Enlightened
engineering 4. Gentlemen and players 5. The reach of science 6. The shape
of networking 7. Creating a scene 8. Perspectives Appendix: Webs of
connection Glossary of terms related to iron-making Bibliography