Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914

Christine MacLeod

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of illustrations 1. Introduction: inventors and other heroes 2. The new Prometheus 3. The inventor's progress 4. The apotheosis of James Watt 5. Watt, inventor of the Industrial Revolution 6. 'What's Watt?' The radical critique 7. The technological pantheon 8. Heroes of the Pax Britannica 9. Debating the patent system 10. The workers' heroes 11. Maintaining the industrial spirit 12. Science and the disappearing inventor Epilogue. The Victorian legacy Bibliography Index.

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