English and American tool builders

"English and American Tool Builders" by Joseph Wickham Roe is a historical exploration from the early 1900s, chronicling the essential but often unacknowledged contributions of inventors in England and America, such as Henry Maudslay and Eli Whitney, who revolutionized manufacturing through their innovative machine tools. The book spotlights these individuals not merely as craftsmen, but as instrumental minds whose inventions paved the way for modern industrial processes and transformed mechanical technology forever placing them as important in history as statesmen and soldiers. The book begins by painting a picture of the late 1700s and the transformative changes to machine tools that created the foundation for later important innovators.