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Great movements, and those who achieved them
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Title
Great movements, and those who achieved them, by Henry J. Nicoll. With thirteen portraits.
Published
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1882.
Physical Description
487 p. incl. front., ports. 20 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Prison reform (John Howard)
The abolition of the slave-trade ( William Wilberforce)
The amelioration of the criminal code (Sir Samuel Romilly)
Popular education (Lord Brougham)
Cheap literature (Constable, Chambers, Knight and Cassell)
Penny postage (Sir Rowland Hill)
The repeal of the corn-laws (Richard Cobden, John Bright, and C.P. Villiers)
The repeal of the fiscal restrictions upon literature and the press (Thomas Milner, Gibson and others)
The introduction of gas (Murdoch, Winsor, Clegg, and others)
The steam-engine, and its application to locomotion by land and water (Watt, Stephenson, Fulton and Bell)
The electric telegraph (Cooke, Wheatstone, and others)
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