The author of Self-Help tells how Britain became the workshop of the world through iron. He begins with early iron-making, then profiles Dud Dudley and smelting with pit-coal, Andrew Yarranton, the Darbys of Coalbrookdale, Benjamin Huntsman’s cast steel, Henry Cort’s puddling process, and the inventors of machine tools.
Victorian industrial history full of human stories, for anyone curious about the roots of modern engineering. Download the free EPUB.