| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Family Tree; 1. Marlborough, Wiltshire -- Roots; 2. The Hancocks Gather in London; 3. From Seawater to Steam; 4. Life, Death, and Bankruptcy; 5. The Family, the Law, and the End of a Dream; 6. Life's Ups and Downs; 7. A New Industry; 8. Gutta Percha Comes to Town; 9. The Great Hose Controversy; 10. The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations; 11. Back to the Courts; 12. A Life of Ease ; 13. Death and Dispositions; 14. Marlborough Cottage and the Great Aunts; 15. The Hancock Legacy; 16. James Lyne Hancock & Co. |
| Summary |
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 of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art. Walter designed and ranthe first steam carriages to carry passengers on the common roads of England and so began the age of mechanized transport. T. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hancock, Thomas, 1786-1865.
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Hancock, Thomas, 1786-1865. |
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Hancock family -- England -- Marlborough.
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Hancock, Thomas, 1786-1865. |
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Hancock family -- England -- Marlborough. |
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Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History.
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Industrial revolution. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Inventors -- England -- Marlborough -- Biography.
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Inventors. |
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England -- Marlborough. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Rubber industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
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Rubber industry and trade. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
James, Francis, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Loadman, John. Hancocks of Marlborough. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 (DLC) 2009035789 |
| ISBN |
0199573557 (hardback) |
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9780199573554 (hardback) |
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9780191574412 (electronic book) |
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0191574414 (electronic book) |
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