Author: Antonia Brodie
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-12-20
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13: 082645514X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive biographical directory of some 11,000 British architects who worked between 1834 and 1914 .
Author: Alexandrina Buchanan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1843838001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history.
Author: Manchester (England). Joint Architectural Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Demidowicz
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1802070931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch. The Soho Manufactory (1761-1863) and Soho Mint (1788-1850s) were both situated in the historic parish of Handsworth, now in the city of Birmingham, and the Soho Foundry (1795-1895) lay in the historic township of Smethwick, now within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. Together they played a key role in the Industrial Revolution , achieving many world 'firsts': the first working Watt steam engine, the first steam-engine powered mint and the first purpose-built steam engine manufactory (the Soho Foundry), to name but a few. Existing literature focuses largely on the biography of the people, primarily Boulton and Watt, or the products they manufactured. The place - the Soho complex - has attracted very little attention. This volume is the first to concentrate on the buildings themselves analysing not only their physical origins, development and eventual decline but also the water and steam power systems adopted. An interdisciplinary approach has been employed combining archival research in the magnificent Soho collection at the Library of Birmingham with the results of archaeological excavations. The volume is profusely illustrated with archival material, most published for the first time, and contains a large number of reconstruction plans and drawings by the author.
Author: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 800
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 196
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