Great movements and those who achieved them : with eight portraits / by Henry J. Nicoll
- Bib ID:
- 5055856
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Nicoll, Henry James
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- London : John Hogg, Paternoster Row, [1881]
- iv, 456 p., [8] leaves of plates : ports. ; 19 cm.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Prison reform : John Howard
- 2. The abolition of the slave trade : William Wilberforce
- 3. The amelioration of the criminal code : Sir Samuel Romilly
- 4. Popular education : Lord Brougham
- 5. Cheap literature : Constable, Chambers, Knight, Cassell
- 6. Penny postage : Sir Rowland Hill
- 7. The repeal of the corn laws : Richard Cobden, John Bright, C.P. Villiers
- 8. The repeal of the fiscal restrictions on literature and the press : T. Milner Gibson and others
- 9. The introduction of gas : Murdoch, Winsor, Clegg, and others
- 10. The steam engine, and its application to locomotion by land and water : Watt, Stephenson, Fulton, Bell
- 11. The electric telegraph : Cooke, Wheatstone, and others
- Index.
- Notes:
- Preface dated 1881. Originally published 1882.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1881
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- Publication date:
- 1881
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