Captains of Industry: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Captains of Industry, credited to James Parton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY, by JAMES PARTON. In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. Most of these chapters were published originally in "The Ledger" of New York, and a few of them in "The Youths' Companion" of Boston, the largest two circulations in the country. I have occasionally had reason to think that they were of some service to young readers, and I may add that they represent more labor and research than would be naturally supposed from their brevity. Perhaps in this new form they may reach and influence the minds of future leaders in the great and growing realm of business. I should pity any young man who could read the briefest account of what has been done in manufacturing towns by such men as John Smedley and Robert Owen without forming a secret resolve to do something similar if ever he should win the opportunity.(Summary from the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Captains of Industry
• Author credits: James Parton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 9:56:12

Catalogue topics

• biography

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 00 - Preface — 4:11
2. 01 - David Maydole, Hammer-Maker — 11:42
3. 02 - Icabod Washburn, Wire-Maker — 13:34
4. 03 - Elihu Burrit, The Learned Blacksmith — 13:57
5. 04 - Michael Reynolds, Engine Driver — 10:15
6. 05 - Major Robert Pike, Farmer — 11:38
7. 06 - George Graham, Clock Maker, Buried in Westminster Abbey — 10:19
8. 07 - John Harrison, Exquisite Watch-Maker — 11:02
9. 08 - Peter Faneuil, and The Great Hall He Built — 20:47
10. 09 - Chauncy Jerome, Yankee Clock-Maker — 14:40
11. 10 - Captain Pierre Laclede Liguest, Pioneer — 10:24
12. 11 - Israel Putnam, Farmer — 11:49
13. 12 - George Flower, Pioneer — 19:46
14. 13 - Edward Coles, Noblest of the Pioneers, and His Great Speech — 12:36
15. 14 - Peter H. Burnett, Banker — 11:29
16. 15 - Gerrit Smith — 11:06
17. 16 - Peter Force, Printer — 12:01
18. 17 - John Bromfield, Merchant — 12:06
19. 18 - Frederick Tudor, Ice Exporter — 10:37
20. 19 - Myron Holley, Market-Gardener — 9:52
21. 20 - The Founders of Lowell — 14:56
22. 21 - Robert Owen, Cotton-Manufacturer — 12:29
23. 22 - John Smedley, Stocking-Manufacturer — 11:23
24. 23 - Richard Cobden, Calico Printer — 17:19

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