The Men Who Built Great Britain: An Illustrated Look at their Lives and Accomplishments - Softcover

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Learn how to succeed in business and life by following the examples of the men who built Britain into an industrialized global Empire! Beginning with Phineas Pett and his creation of the English ship-building industry, you will learn about the lives and accomplishments of: >Francis “Screw” Smith, inventor of the screw propeller >John Harrison, the man who discovered how to calculate the >Earth’s longitude >John Lombe, creator of the English silk manufacturing industry >William Murdock, inventor of the railway locomotive and natural gas lighting. >Friedrich König, inventor of the high-speed printing press >John Walter, inventor of the Walter newspaper printing press and creator of The Times newspaper >William Clowes, inventor of the steam-powered book printing machine >Charles Bianconi, creator of Ireland’s first Mass Transportation System >Edward Harland, the ship-building industrialist who built the Titanic ocean liner >Various Englishmen’s achievements in Astronomy, including their discovery of planetary movement cycles Learn from the trials and tribulations of some of the most significant humans who have ever lived! Fully illustrated with over 200 photos, sketches and diagrams , The Men Who Built Great Britain is an excellent resource for entrepreneurs and makes a great gift for those interested in history and technology.

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