books.google.com - This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture. It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments, biographies and honours, and contends there was...http://books.google.com/books/about/Heroes_of_Invention.html?id=ZhMHZdm4U-QC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHeroes of Invention
