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In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, a stone's throw from the Thames. His workshop became in its day the equivalent of Google and Apple combined, attracting the country's best in engineering talent. Their story of innovation and ambition tells how precision engineering made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop of the world.

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'With wit, assurance and dexterity, Iron Men captures the ingenuity, determination and defiance of a small group of Britons whose inventions made their country the epicentre of technology. The early nineteenth-century inventors, who created the automatic spinning mule, devised the micrometer, standardized the manufacturing of screws and bolts and concocted the steam engine, had an influence as widespread as that enjoyed today by companies in Silicon Valley and China. David Waller has composed an absorbing tale of man's ability to create a lot from a little.' -Sir Michael Moritz, Chairman, Sequoia Capital 'David Waller has done us a great favour in highlighting Maudslay's boundless creativity and energy and reveals him as the mentor and inspiration to a generation of talented engineers who changed the world.' -Lord Norman Foster

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David Waller is an author, business consultant and former Financial Times journalist specialising in business and the nineteenth century.

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