"The Author offers the following book as a continua"continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series tion, of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he freof frequently came across the tracks of celebrated inventors, quently mechanics, and iron-work-ers—the founders, in a great measure, of the modern indus-try of Britain—whose lameasure, labours seemed to him well worthy of being traced out bours and placed on record, a ...