Sir Samuel Bentham (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. An Enlightenment-Era Biography of Engineering Innovation, Governance, and Philanthropic Social ReformBy Mary Sophia Bentham
Length1h 22m
About this audiobook
Mary Sophia Bentham's *Sir Samuel Bentham* is a substantial biographical portrait of the engineer, naval architect, inventor, and reforming thinker whose career linked British technological innovation with the administrative ambitions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Combining personal remembrance, documentary narration, and discussion of his professional achievements, the book presents Samuel Bentham not merely as Jeremy Bentham's brother but as an important figure in his own right. Its prose belongs to the Victorian tradition of commemorative biography: earnest, circumstantial, morally attentive, and concerned with preserving a life's usefulness for posterity. The work is consequently valuable both as a record of mechanical and naval experimentation and as an example of nineteenth-century writing about scientific character, public service, and progress. Mary Sophia Bentham, Samuel's wife, writes with the distinctive authority of an intimate observer. Her account is shaped by domestic knowledge, sustained companionship, and access to the intellectual and professional world in which he worked. These circumstances enable her to illuminate the motives behind his inventions, his practical reforms, and his persistent interest in applying rational design to institutions and industry. The biography also reflects the Benthamite milieu, in which engineering, education, administration, and social improvement were understood as connected enterprises. Readers interested in naval history, the history of technology, biography, or the wider culture of utilitarian reform will find this book especially rewarding. It offers both a human portrait and a valuable historical document, revealing how invention was imagined as an ethical form of public service. *Sir Samuel Bentham* deserves attention from anyone seeking a fuller account of the intellectual and technological networks that shaped modern Britain.
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Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length1 hr 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sir Samuel Bentham (Annotated)
2Sir Samuel Bentham
3PAPER ON THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF STEAM ENGINES INTO NAVAL ARSENALS AND MACHINERY SET IN MOTION THEREBY[1q].
4ENUMERATION OF THE PRINCIPAL INVENTIONS OF THE LATE BRIGADIER, GENERAL SIR SAMUEL BENTHAM, K.S.G., INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVAL WORKS, ETC.
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