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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Name: Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
Author: Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles

Read by Clive Catterall · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface (6:29)
Iron and Civilisation - Part 1 (26:03)
Iron and Civilisation - Part 2 (24:16)
Early English Iron Manufacture (32:32)
Iron Smelting by Pit Coal - Dud Dudley (34:31)
Andrew Yarranton (31:10)
Coalbrookdale Iron Works - Part 1 (24:17)
Coalbrookdale Iron Works - Part 2 (22:04)
The Invention of Cast Steel - Benjamin Huntsman (32:03)
The Inventions of Henry Cort (39:59)
The Scotch Iron Manufacture - Dr Roebuck, David Mushet (32:14)
The Invention of the Hot Blast - James Beaumont Neilson (26:38)
Mechanical Inventions and Inventors (42:32)
Joseph Bramah (27:06)
Henry Maudslay - Part 1 (34:55)
Henry Maudslay - Part 2 (42:49)
Joseph Clement - Part 1 (22:39)
Joseph Clement - Part 2 (22:49)
Fox of Derby, Murray of Leeds, Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester (35:08)
James Nasmyth - Part 1 (24:35)
James Nasmyth - Part 2 (26:28)
William Fairbairn - Part 1 (31:38)
William Fairbairn - Part 2 (40:01)