Download or read book People and Industries written by W.H. Chaloner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences and believes that it is impossible to treat usefully of the rise, decline and metamorphosis of industries and economics without some consideration of the part played by the efforts of individual men and women in these processes. In this collection of essays, first published in 1963, he provides biographies of certain entrepreneurs, inventors and engineers together with historical surveys of some vital industries.