{"product_id":"vehicles-to-vaccines-philip-hamlyn-williams-9798223520498","title":"Vehicles To Vaccines","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is a quest to discover what happened to British manufacturing in the decades after the Second World War. People say that we don't make things anymore. Is this true?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI try to answer this question by exploring what happened in manufacturing sectors and to major manufacturing companies. I seek out manufacturing heroes, and try to map out where we are with the twenty-first century well underway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1951, the Festival of Britain was celebrating British manufacturing; we built ships, wonderful aircraft like the Viscount and cars a plenty. Seventy years later a British company and a British University teamed up to produce a vaccine that saved thousands of lives from Covid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has been a period of astonishing change, from a third of the working population employed in manufacturing to now just one tenth. Britain now ranks eighth among the world's top manufacturing nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book seeks to explore what has changed: the story of British manufacturing from steam trains to semiconductors; from cotton mills to 3D printing; from ocean liners to satellites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Hamlyn Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8223520494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798223520498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e APS Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Philip Hamlyn Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897614229759,"sku":"9798223520498","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e5bebe4-de1f-45b2-a06e-aeb10b958e9c.jpg?v=1721374337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vehicles-to-vaccines-philip-hamlyn-williams-9798223520498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}