William Armstrong

Magician of the North

Henrietta Heald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

385 Seiten

2012
McNidder & Grace (Verlag)
978-0-85716-042-3 (ISBN)

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William Armstrong: Magician of the North is the first full-scale biography of this extraordinary man. He was a visionary inventor, scientist, engineer and businessman who bestrode the 19th-century world, bringing global renown to his great Elswick Works on the Tyne which employed over 25,000 people in its heyday.

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.

Henrietta Heald is an author and editor on British history. William Armstrong, her first book, was shortlisted for the Portico Prize and the H. W. Fisher First Biography Prize.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2012
Zusatzinfo	50 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Pembroke Dock
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-85716-042-7 / 0857160427
ISBN-13	978-0-85716-042-3 / 9780857160423
Zustand	Neuware