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Tim Harford tells the story of how Honoré Blanc, a gun-maker in 18th-century France, transformed the way the world manufactures things - but couldn't benefit from his own innovations.
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Sources
Simon Winchester Exactly Harper Collins
Marshall Brain 'How Flintlock Guns Work'
William Howard Adams The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson Yale University Press 1997
Thomas Jefferson The Papers of Thomas Jefferson 30 August 1785, Ed. Julian Boyd
Frank Dawson John Wilkinson: King of the Ironmasters The History Press 2012
H.W. Dickinson A Short History of the Steam Engine Cambridge University Press 1939
Robert C. Allen Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press 2011
L. T. C. Rolt Tools for the Job London HM Stationery Office 1986
Ben Russell James Watt Reaktion Books, London 2014
Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 1776 Book 1
David A. Hounsell From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932 John Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1987
Priya Satia Empire of Guns Duckworth Overlook London 2018
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- Sat 14 Sep 2019 04:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & South Asia
- Sat 14 Sep 2019 13:50GMTBBC World Service News Internet
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- Sun 15 Sep 2019 21:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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- Mon 16 Sep 2019 03:50GMTBBC World Service South Asia
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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
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