Excerpt from Industrial Plants Their Arrangement and Construction With steam to supersede the slave and serf came the new era of industrialism. The iron-masters, ship builders, spinners, weavers, and engineers, through their surprising accomplishment, took rank with the professions; they were seen to be men of the great est ability; they attained to wealth and important positions in the government of nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.