The Industrial Revolutionaries interweaves accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another, like the young Japanese Samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of Western industrial might.
In his account of the spread of industrialism from Britain to Europe, North America and Japan, Gavin Weightman resurrects many unsung pioneers from obscurity, and puts a few luminaries in their place, not least the celebrated Scot James Watt, whose brilliance had blind spots, notably his hatred of steam locomotives. The span of The Industrial Revolutionaries is vast, taking the story from the ironworks of rural England to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
- ISBN10 1843545845
- ISBN13 9781843545842
- Publish Date 9 August 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English