The Age of Machinery
Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850
The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almostall working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes their origins and skills, the sources of their inspiration and impetus, and how it was possible todevelop a high-tech, factory-centred, world-leading market in textile machinery virtually from scratch. The story of textile engineering defies classical assumptions about the driving forces behindthe Industrial Revolution. The circumstances of its bi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78744-309-9
- EAN: 9781787443099
- Produktnummer: 26181844
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 337 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 17'189 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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