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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

by Samuel Smiles

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Iron and Civilization
  4. 4Chapter II — Beginnings of the Iron-Manufacturer in Britain
  5. 5Chapter III — Iron Smelting by Pit-Coal — Dud Dudley
  6. 6Chapter IV — Andrew Yarranton
  7. 7Chapter V — Coalbrookdale Iron Works — The Darbys and Reynoldses
  8. 8Chapter VI — Invention of Cast Steel — Benjamin Huntsman
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Inventions of Henry Cort
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Scotch Iron Manufacture — Dr. Roebuck — David Mu…
  11. 11Chapter IX — Invention of the Hot Blast — James Beaumont Neilson
  12. 12Chapter X — Mechanical Inventions and Inventors
  13. 13Chapter XI — Joseph Bramah
  14. 14Chapter XII — Henry Maudslay
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Joseph Clement
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Fox of Derby — Murray of Leeds — Roberts and Whitwort…
  17. 17Chapter XV — James Nasmyth
  18. 18Chapter XVI — William Fairbairn
  19. 19Chapter I — Iron and Civilization
  20. 20Chapter II — Early English Iron Manufacture
  21. 21Chapter III — Iron-Smelting by Pit-Coal — Dud Dudley
  22. 22Chapter IV — Andrew Yarranton
  23. 23Chapter V — Coalbrookdale Iron Works — The Darbys and Reynoldses
  24. 241 — Dr. Plot, Natural History of Staffordshire, 2nd Ed. 1686, P. 128
  25. 25Chapter VI — Invention of Cast Steel — Benjamin Huntsman
  26. 26Chapter VII — The Inventions of Henry Cort
  27. 27Chapter VIII — The Scotch Iron Manufacture — Dr. Roebuck David Mushet
  28. 28Chapter IX — Invention of the Hot Blast — James Beaumont Neilson
  29. 29Chapter X — Mechanical Inventions and Inventors
  30. 30Chapter XI — Joseph Bramah
  31. 31Chapter XII — Henry Maudslay
  32. 32Chapter XIII — Joseph Clement
  33. 33Chapter XIV — Fox of Derby — Murray of Leeds — Roberts and Whitwort…
  34. 34Chapter XV — James Nasmyth
  35. 35Chapter XVI — William Fairbairn

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