Rubber, Art and the Industrial Revolution - A Family of Inventive Genius
by
John Loadman, Francis James
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks...