Jenny Uglow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003, 2002, English
Nonfiction, General
ISBN: 9780374194406

An in-depth look at the “Lunar Society,” a group of five scientists and inventors including Joseph Priestley, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin, and Matthew Boulton, whose research and inventions set in motion the Industrial Revolution.

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David Easton

Wonderful read about some of the great English inventors and craftsmen of the late 1700s.

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