title: Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution
author:  Roger Osborne 
description: <b>Roger Osborne</b> is the author of a dozen books that provide new insights into episodes, events, and movements in world history. His major works include <i>Civilization: A New History of the Western World</i> and <i>The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology</i>. He is also a playwright; his political drama, <i>The Art of Persuasion</i>, was first performed in 2011.
zlib_text: **Contents**
  
  [Cover](cover.html)
  
  About the Book
  
  About the Author
  
  Also by Roger Osborne
  
  Title Page
  
  List of Capsule Texts
  
  Introduction
  
  PROLOGUE: BRITAIN ON THE VERGE
  
   **PART I** : **INVENTION**
  
  1\. The Watershed
  
  2\. Inventors and Inventing
  
  3\. Navigating the Patent System
  
   **PART II** : **COAL**
  
  4\. Fuelling the Revolution
  
   **Part III** : **POWER**
  
  5\. Watermills and Wheels
  
  6\. Steam before Newcomen
  
  7\. The Newcomen Engine
  
  8\. James Watt’s Revolution
  
  9\. Richard Trevithick: Steam into Motion
  
   **PART IV** : **COTTON**
  
  10\. The Rise of Cotton
  
  11\. Spinning and Weaving
  
  12\. Richard Arkwright: The King of Cotton
  
  13\. Arkwright on Trial
  
  14\. Manchester: The First Industrial City
  
   **PART V** : **IRON**
  
  15\. Abraham Darby’s Blast Furnace
  
  16\. Henry Cort and Cheap Iron
  
  17\. Crucible Steel
  
   **PART VI** : **TRANSPORT**
  
  18\. Rivers and Roads
  
  19\. Canals and Locomotives
  
   **PART VII** : **MONEY**
  
  20\. Producers and Consumers
  
  21\. Money for Industry
  
  22\. Adam Smith