The Age of Machinery: engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850: by Gillian Cookson, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2018, xii + 324 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-78327-276-1

Sooner or later, when discussing the Industrial Revolution, attention will turn to the machines. It is inevitable. The jennies, the mules and the frames of one sort or another are known to have rev...