First published in 2005. Taking a look at the Industrial Revolution from 1760 in English Agriculture, Manufacturing and politics and also discussing the mechanical revolution and its economic and social effects., this book puts forward that the civilised world has been changed, and social duties, morals, habits, habitations, and connections all altered by the discoveries of a few dozen able men.

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