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Author : Henry Cleere,David W. Crossley
Publisher : Leicester University
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015051145038
Author : Jeremy Hodgkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN : 0752445731
For two periods of British history - the first part of the Roman occupation and the Tudor and early Stuart periods - the Weald of south-east England was the most productive iron-producing region in the country. Looking across the tranquil Wealden countryside, it is hard to identify anything that hints at its industrial past. Yet 400 years ago, nearly 100 furnaces and forges roared and hammered there, the smoke from charcoal-making curling up from the surrounding woods and the roads bustling with wagons laden with ore and iron sows. Many British naval campaigns, including the Spanish Armada, the wars against the Dutch and The Seven Years' War, relied on Wealden iron cannon; the pressures of conflict driving forward the development of iron-producing technology. For a time the economy of the whole area was dominated by the production of iron and its raw materials, providing employment, generating prosperity and shaping the landscape irrevocably. Drawing on a wealth of local evidence, this book explores the archaeology and history of an area whose iron industry was of international importance.
Author : Ernest Straker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015030032901
Author : Helen Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN : 1907242155
Author : Richard Hayman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784420840
The iron industry was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution, producing a vital source of iron without which none of the great engineering achievements of the Victorian age would have been possible. This book charts the growth of iron making from the Middle Ages, covering the importation of blast-furnace methods in the fifteenth century, the adoption of coke as a fuel in the eighteenth century, and the invention of mass-produced steel in the nineteenth century. The developing techniques of iron making, all explained in a non-technical style, make a story in their own right, but combined with the experiences of the masters and workmen who laboured at the furnaces and forges, this volume offers a truly comprehensive account of one of the most important industries of recent centuries.
Author : Michael Zell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0851155855
Early Modern Kent offers an accessible but scholarly introduction to the country's history during a century of extraordinary change."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alan Armstrong
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0851155820
Studies of Kent's economic history confirm the industrial revolution to have been less cataclysmic and more widespread then formerly accepted.
Author : Mary Cecilia Delany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN : UCAL:$B276715
Author : Arthur Cecil Bining
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512814491
A record of a thriving early American industry and the inability of the British Parliament to restrict its success.
Author : Charles K. Hyde
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691198415
This book describes technological change in an industry that played a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars have examined isolated aspects of ironmaking in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, Charles Hyde surveys all aspects of its development. Costs, prices, profits, shrewd leaders, competition, new inventions, and productivity all figure in this story of a key industry during the major period of its evolution. The author's account illuminates not only the nature of innovation in one industry, but the nature of technologial change in general. using new data compiled form the records of the ironmaking concerns, Professor Hyde considers each of the basic economic variables affecting entrepreneurial decisions. He finds that ironmaking advanced through a process of gradual, continuous change rather than through a series of discrete innovations. The rate of diffusion of new techniques corresponded to their profitability when compared to that of existing means of production--a finding that explains that timing of innovation. Charles K. Hyde is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Monteith College, Wayne State University. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Peter King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407354019
Author : John Raymond Harris,Economic History Society
Publisher : Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Education
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040931623
Between 1700-1850 Britain moved from a situation in which she was unable to supply a large part of her home market to being the world's largest producer and exporter of iron. In this work, Professor Harris sets out to show how earlier views on the economic and technological development of the industry have been revised in the light of further research, and explains the subject for the student approaching it for the first time. Professor Harris is author of "The Copper King" and co-author of "A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution".
Author : Peter King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Blast furnaces
ISBN : 1407354639
"A new process of making iron, using a blast furnace and a forge, both powered by water, was introduced into the Weald in the 1490s, and spread to other parts of England and Wales from the 1550s. This book provides a history of every ironworks of the charcoal blast furnace period, except the Weald. It also covers early coke ironworks (built before 1815) and water-powered bloomeries (of the previous technology). After introductory material on the industry generally, each chapter deals with the ironworks of one district, including also other water-powered mills processing iron, steel furnaces, early ironworks powered by steam engines, and a few other works. Blade mills (and cutlers wheels), which provided the initial cutting edge for tools and needle mills are not included in those areas where they are ubiquitous. The period covered is an era in the technology of an important industry in Great Britain."--Volumes 1-2, back cover (page 4 of cover).
Author : David Bird
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785703225
The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure. The area is, however, comparatively neglected in discussion of Roman Britain, where it is often subsumed into a generalised treatment of the βcivilianβ part of Britannia that is based largely on other parts of the country. This book aims to redress the balance. The focus is particularly on Kent, Surrey and Sussex account is taken of information from neighbouring counties, particularly when the difficult subsoils affect the availability of evidence. An overview of the environment and a consideration of themes relevant to the South-East as a whole accompany 14 papers covering the topics of rural settlement in each county, crops, querns and millstones, animal exploitation, salt production, leatherworking, the working of bone and similar materials, the production of iron and iron objects, non-ferrous metalworking, pottery production and the supply of tile to Roman London. Agriculture and industry provides an up-to-date assessment of our knowledge of the southern hinterland of Roman London and an area that was particularly open to influences from the Continent.
Author : David Sim
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752478593
The invasion of AD 43 began the Romansβ settlement of Britain. The Romans brought with them a level of expertise that raised iron production in Britain from small localised sites to an enormous industry. Rome thrived on war and iron was vital to the Roman military establishment as well as to the civil population.In this pioneering work, David Sim combines current ideas of iron-making in Roman times with experimental archaeology. The Roman Iron Industry in Britain stretches far beyond dry theory and metallurgy alone; it covers all the stages of this essential process, from prospecting to distribution, and describes the whole cycle of iron production.Photographs and line drawings illustrate the text well enough to allow keen readers to reproduce the artefacts for themselves. Fascinating to the general reader and all those with an interest in Roman history, this book is invaluable to students of archaeology and professional archaeologists alike. Dr David Sim is an archaeologist who has combined studies of the technology of the Roman Empire with his skills as a blacksmith.