Men of Invention and Industry
1884
Samuel Smiles' 1884 biographies of makers and builders: Phineas Pett and the beginnings of English shipbuilding, John Harrison and the marine chronometer, Friedrich Koenig and the steam printing press, and other lives of invention told in Smiles' documentary manner.
- Preface
- Chapter I Phineas Pett: Beginnings of English Ship-Building
- Chapter II Francis Pettit Smith: Practical Introducer of the Screw Propeller
- Chapter III John Harrison: Inventor of the Marine Chronometer
- Chapter IV John Lombe: Introducer of the Silk Industry into England
- Chapter V William Murdock: His Life and Inventions
- Chapter VI Frederick Koenig: Inventor of the Steam-Printing Machine
- Chapter VII The Walters of the Times: Invention of the Walter Press
- Chapter VIII William Clowes: Introducer of Book-Printing by Steam
- Chapter IX Charles Bianconi: a Lesson of Self-Help in Ireland
- Chapter X Industry in Ireland: Through Connaught and Ulster, to Belfast
- Chapter XI Shipbuilding in Belfast—Its Origin and Progress
- Astronomers and Students in Humble Life: a New Chapter in the 'pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties.'