Iron Men: How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World

Description

In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, a stone's throw from the Thames. His workshop became in its day the equivalent of Google and Apple combined, attracting the country's best in engineering talent. Their story of innovation and ambition tells how precision engineering made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop of the world.

David Waller is an author, business consultant and former Financial Times journalist specialising in business and the nineteenth century.

'Our image of the industrial revolution is dominated by the North and the Midlands. ... But as ... David Waller argues, the really pioneering work was done in London. Waller describes the work of Henry Maudslay, who opened a factory in Lambeth in 1810.' -The Telegraph 'One of the best books on engineering history to be published in many a moon'. -Nick Smith, Engineering & Technology magazine