Book Description
Soldon (history, West Chester U.) gives a detailed biography of a major entrepreneur of the industrial revolution who worked with blast furnaces, steam engines, iron bridges, canons, and cylinders. The work covers family origins, the building of an iron empire, diffusion of Wilkinson's technology to Europe, mineral investments, contemporary opinion of Wilkinson, and the Wilkinson legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR