The Who's Who of the Industrial Revolution features such characters as Samuel Slater, the Englishman who introduced the cotton mill to the United States, starting a revolution in the American cotton industry, and Rover Owen, a reformer who helped form the first trade unions in Britain to secure better conditions for workers. [back cover]
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Originally published: 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes: James Hargreaves -- Richard Arkwright -- Abraham Darby -- Samuel Slater -- James Brindley -- James Watt -- George Stephenson -- Eli Whitney -- Adam Smith -- Robert Owen -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper -- Romanticism