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William Armstrong - Magician of the North (Paperback)
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William Armstrong - Magician of the North (Paperback)
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William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the
19th Century - a self-made man whose achievements are now being
more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early
advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in
Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the
first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Armstrong's
industrial powerhouse Elswick Works on the Tyne employed over
25,000 people in its heyday manufacturing hydraulic cranes,
warships and armaments. He was a visionary who was loved, and
hated, and feared in equal measure. While he brought great fame and
fortune to his native Newcastle upon Tyne, and to his country as a
whole, he was condemned in some quarters as 'a merchant of death'
for his manufacturing of weapons of war.
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