A Life in Steel: a life between fire, knowledge, and recognition - Softcover

Endsley, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798246513170

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A Life in Steel – A Life Between Fire, Knowledge, and Recognition

In an age when steel was reshaping the world, one man worked in the shadow of greater names.
A Life in Steel tells the gripping, true story of Robert Forester Mushet: the engineer who did not so much discover as correct, refine, and strengthen — and in doing so helped shape the Industrial Revolution, without ever receiving the applause.

Between glowing furnaces and London patent offices unfolds a biographical novel of ambition, resistance, and quiet brilliance. Mushet moves along the fault line between science and power, where progress is fought for with as much conviction as solitude. This is not a technical manual, but a literary journey through the nineteenth century, in which steel is not merely a material, but a metaphor for humanity itself: bent under pressure, yet neither broken nor bowed.

For readers drawn to historical fiction, industrial history, science, innovation, and forgotten geniuses, A Life in Steel is a revelation.
A book about how real progress is rarely loud — but always relentless.

Discover the story behind the steel.
And behind the men who shaped it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798246513170
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
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