| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 390 pages) |
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Phineas Pett: Beginnings of English shipbuilding.--Francis Pettit Smith: Practical introducer of the screw propeller.--John Harrison: Inventor of the marine chronometer.--John Lombe: Introducer of the silk industry into England.--William Murdock: His life and inventions.--Frederick Koenig: Inventor of the steam-printing machine.--The Walters of the 'Times': Invention of the Walter press.--William Clowes: Book-printing by steam.--Charles Bianconi: A lesson of self-help in Ireland.--Industry in Ireland: Through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast.--Ship-building in Belfast: By E.J. Harland, engineer and shipbuilder.--Astronomers and students in humble life: A new chapter in the 'Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties' |
| Summary |
Smiles continues his memoirs of men of invention and industry, following the previous titles 'Lives of Engineers', 'Industrial Biography' and 'Self-help' |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Inventors
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Industrial arts -- Biography.
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inventors.
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Industrial arts.
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Inventors.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780727751379 |
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0727751379 |
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