{"product_id":"9781803991122","title":"Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great : The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution","description":"Author(s): Burton, Anthony, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 09\/03\/2023, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 224 pages, 70 Illustrations, black and white, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: The History Press Ltd, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: The History Press Ltd, \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 156 x 235 x 20mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 368g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781803991122\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and often fabricated accounts in his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great, Anthony Burton seeks to correct this narrative by offering nuanced portraits of some of the best-known engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Burton investigates the common themes that run between the stories of John Metcalf, James Brindley, John Smeaton, William Jessop, Thomas Telford, James Watt, Richard Trevithick, George and Robert Stephenson, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and also explores how each of these men learned from one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44005756076269,"sku":"9781803991122","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781803991122.jpg?v=1724787300","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781803991122","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}