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Men of Invention and Industry
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A collection of biographical accounts by Samuel Smiles profiling inventors, engineers, and industrialists, illustrating their contributions to technology and industry. Suitable for readers interested in the history of invention, industrial development, and Victorian ideals of self-improvement.
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
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