Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Industrial Biography, by Samuel SmilesThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Industrial Biography Iron Workers and Tool MakersAuthor: Samuel SmilesRelease Date: March 6, 2008 [EBook #404]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDUSTRIAL BIOGRAPHY ***[Updater's note: The previous version's footnotes were embedded into their respective paragraphs. In this version, eachchapter's footnotes have been renumbered sequentially and moved to the end of their chapter.]INDUSTRIAL BIOGRAPHYIron Workers and Tool Makersby Samuel Smiles(This etext was produced from a reprint of the 1863 first edition)PREFACE.The Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs ofIndustrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across the tracks ofcelebrated inventors, mechanics, and iron-workers—the founders, in a great measure, of the modern industry of Britain—whose labours seemed to him well worthy of being traced out and placed on record, and the more so as their livespresented many points of curious and original interest. Having been encouraged to prosecute the subject by offers ofassistance from some ...