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Iron men : how one London factory powered the industrial revolution and shaped the modern world (engelsk)

Af David Waller (2016)
In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth. Attracting the best in engineering talent, this factory became the pre-Victorian equivalent of Google and Apple combined. Iron Men is a nuts-and-bolts history of Maudslay's engineering enterprise, a feat that made the Industrial Revolution possible and helped Great Britain become the workshop of the world

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