The men who make it are craftsmen: the millwright, the watchmaker, the canal builder, the blacksmith.What makes the Industrial Revolution so peculiarly English is that it is rooted in the countryside.
发起工业革命的都是些手工业者,技工、钟表匠、运河凿者,以及铁匠,正是由于制造业根植乡间才,使工业革命具有如此鲜明的英国特色。