Trailblazing Georgians: The Unsung Men Who Helped Shape the Modern World

This book highlights overlooked inventors, artists, and engineers shaping eighteenth-century progress and mass culture. Other books deal with the men under the spotlight of fame – the ‘lead singers’ of the Industrial Revolution. What this book tries to do is to focus on the ‘other boys in the band’ – the less famous inventors, artists, engineers and industrialists who played their part in the enormous changes that occurred in the eighteenth century. You will not find James Watt, Josiah Wedg...