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Author: George Demidowicz
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781789255225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensive analysis of a ground-breaking 18th century historic industrial complex associated with Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch: combining historical, excavation and survey data
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: Peter M. Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1526130319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world’s first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological ‘know how’ to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728–1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.
Author: George Demidowicz
Publisher: Buildings of England (Tempus)
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of archive photographs and ephemera featuring the buildings of Coventry, accompanied by informative text.
Author: Eric A. Willats
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780951187104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Humphrey Jennings
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1848315864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.
Author: Henry C. King
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780486432656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This remarkable history encompasses not only the achievements of the early inventors and astronomers but also the less frequently recounted stories of the instrument makers and of the actual instruments. A model of unsurpassed, comprehensive scholarship, this volume covers many fields, including professional and amateur astronomy. 196 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: B. Marsden
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-12-07
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0230504124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
