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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Roger Osborne
Title Page
List of Capsule Texts
Introduction
Prologue: Britain on the Verge
Part I: Invention
1. The Watershed
2. Inventors and Inventing
3. Navigating the Patent System
Part II: Coal
4. Fuelling the Revolution
Part III: Power
5. Watermills and Wheels
6. Steam before Newcomen
7. The Newcomen Engine
8. James Watt’s Revolution
9. Richard Trevithick: Steam into Motion
Part IV: Cotton
10. The Rise of Cotton
11. Spinning and Weaving
12. Richard Arkwright: The King of Cotton
13. Arkwright on Trial
14. Manchester: The First Industrial City
Part V: Iron
15. Abraham Darby’s Blast Furnace
16. Henry Cort and Cheap Iron
17. Crucible Steel
Part VI: Transport
18. Rivers and Roads
19. Canals and Locomotives
Part VII: Money
20. Producers and Consumers
21. Money for Industry
22. Adam Smith and the Industrial Economy
Part VIII: Work
23. The Nature of Work and the Rise of the Factory
24. Life in the Industrial City
Epilogue: Britain in the 1830S
Notes
Index
Select Bibliography
Copyright
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