Download or read book The Industrial Revolutionaries written by Gavin Weightman and published by Atlantic. This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. --from publisher description.