William Armstrong : Magician of the North

Name: William Armstrong
Brand: McNidder & Grace
SKU: 9780857160423
Price: 2900 KES
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ISBN: 9780857160423

by Henrietta Heald

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0857160427

ISBN-13 9780857160423

Publisher McNidder & Grace

Imprint McNidder & Grace

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 1st, 2012

Print length 385 Pages

Weight 382 grams

Dimensions 19.60 x 13.00 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military

KSh 2,900.00

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William Armstrong: Magician of the North is the first full-scale biography of this extraordinary man. He was a visionary inventor, scientist, engineer and businessman who bestrode the 19th-century world, bringing global renown to his great Elswick Works on the Tyne which employed over 25,000 people in its heyday.

William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century - a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Armstrong's industrial powerhouse Elswick Works on the Tyne employed over 25,000 people in its heyday manufacturing hydraulic cranes, warships and armaments. He was a visionary who was loved, and hated, and feared in equal measure. While he brought great fame and fortune to his native Newcastle upon Tyne, and to his country as a whole, he was condemned in some quarters as 'a merchant of death' for his manufacturing of weapons of war.

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