The Soho Manufactory Mint And Foundry West Midlands

Author : George Demidowicz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802070934

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The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands by George Demidowicz Pdf

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 : George Demidowicz
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789255228

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The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands, 1761-1895 by George Demidowicz Pdf

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 : Haris Kitsikopoulos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031273629

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An Economic History of British Steam Engines, 1774-1870 by Haris Kitsikopoulos Pdf

This book traces the diffusion trajectory of the second and third generation of British steam engines, the Watt and high-pressure models, covering the period 1774 to 1870. It begins by subjecting to econometric analysis the latest version of Dr. Kanefsky's database on 18th century steam engines coming up with an upward revision of the total amount of horsepower installed by 1800. Subsequent chapters delve into the determinants of the diffusion process through the third quarter of the 19th century relating to engines used both in mining and industry as well as transportation (railways, steam cars). The book's main contribution to the literature lies in drawing material from a very large volume of 18th- and 19th-century sources found in the Dibner Library of Rare Books, Smithsonian, and by utilizing a fair amount of technical literature pertaining to the economic factors driving the diffusion process. This great expansion of the empirical material has led to bringing multiple revisions to the work of other authors on the key aspects and determinants of the diffusion process. In conjunction with the publication by the author of an earlier monograph on the first generation of steam engines, the Newcomen model, the present study completes the task of offering the most comprehensive account of the preeminent and most strategic technology of the British Industrial Revolution. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of economic history and history of technology, interested in a better understanding of the industrial revolution in general and the role of British steam engines in particular.

Author : Eleanor Casella,Michael Nevell,Hanna Steyne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192596536

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The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology by Eleanor Casella,Michael Nevell,Hanna Steyne Pdf

Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, urbanization, the forced migration of peoples, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era - The Anthropocene - have emerged over the last decade. This approach interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialization from its early emergence in 18th century northern Europe to its contemporary ubiquity, environmental impacts, and social legacy within our globalized world. Through a broad international and multi-period set of chapters, this volume explores the complex origins, processes, and development of industrialization through both its physical remains and human consequences - both the good and the bad. It provides a diverse material framework for understanding our modern world, from its industrial origins through its future paths in the 21st century.

Author : Sally Baggott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317099307

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Matthew Boulton by Sally Baggott Pdf

Matthew Boulton was a leading industrialist, entrepreneur and Enlightenment figure. Often overshadowed through his association with James Watt, his Soho manufactories put Birmingham at the centre of what has recently been termed 'The Industrial Enlightenment'. Exploring his many activities and manufactures-and the regional, national and international context in which he operated-this publication provides a valuable index to the current state of Boulton studies. Combining original contributions from social, economic, and cultural historians, with those of historians of science, technology and art, archaeologists and heritage professionals, the book sheds new light on the general culture of the eighteenth century, including patterns of work, production and consumption of the products of art and industry. The book also extends and enhances knowledge of the Enlightenment, industrialization and the processes of globalization in the eighteenth century.

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015078773101

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Industrial Enlightenment by Peter Jones Pdf

This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is here labelled the Industrial Enlightenment.

Author : Malcolm Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123262623

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Joseph Priestley and Birmingham by Malcolm Dick Pdf

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a major figure in the intellectual, religious and political life of the eighteenth century. He was a chemist and physicist, a philosopher, theologian and educationalist and a campaigner for political liberty, religious toleration and anti-slavery. His time in Birmingham between 1780 and 1791 was one of the most active periods of his life when he was a member of the Lunar Society and an associate of other influential men in the West Midlands, such as Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood. In 1791 he was forced to leave Birmingham as a result of the infamous Priestley Riots. A few years later, in 1794, he left England for the United States where he spent the rest of his life.Joseph Priestley and Birmingham contains a collection of articles by historians that focus mainly, but not exclusively, on Priestley's time in Birmingham. It provides a record of an individual whose ideas and activities had a major influence, not only on Birmingham and the West Midlands, but the wider world as well.The publication is a result of work carried out by the "Joseph Priestley and Birmingham Project", which was established by Birmingham & District Local History Association to commemorate Priestley's life and achievements, two-hundred years after he died in 1804. The publication is a special edition of the Association's renowned local history journal, the Birmingham Historian. The Heritage Lottery Fund has generously supported the activities of the "Joseph Priestley and Birmingham Project", which will also include an exhibition, a town trail, a DVD of Priestley's experiments and the provision of resource material on www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk in 2005.

Author : Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Birmingham (England)
ISBN : UCAL:$B753752

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Transactions by Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society Pdf

Author : Peter M. Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526130310

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Industrial Enlightenment by Peter M. Jones Pdf

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 : Rick Szostak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773562936

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Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution by Rick Szostak Pdf

Szostak develops a model that establishes causal links between transportation and industrialization and shows how improvements in transportation could have a beneficial effect on an economy such as that of eighteenth-century England. This model shows the Industrial Revolution to involve four primary phenomena: increased regional specialization, the emergence of new industries, an expanding scale of production, and an accelerated rate of technological innovation. Through detailed analysis, Szostak explicates the effects of the different systems of transportation in France and England on the four components of the Industrial Revolution. He outlines the development in late eighteenth-century England of a reliable system of all-weather transportation, made up of turnpike roads and canals, that was far superior to the system in France at the same period. He goes on to examine in detail the iron, textile, and pottery industries in each country, focusing on the effect of the quality of available transportation on the decisions of individual entrepreneurs and innovators. Szostak shows that in every case these industries were more highly developed in England than in France.

Author : Thomas Savery
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752429886

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The Miner’s Friend by Thomas Savery Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Miner’s Friend by Thomas Savery

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780571266678

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The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow Pdf

Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical. Led by Erasmus Darwin they joined a small band of allies, formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals, launched balloons, named plants, gases and minerals, changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms, and plotted to revolutionise its soul. Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid and swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines, and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern age. Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence, sympathy and wisdom. Jenny Uglow is also the prize-winning author of Nature's Engraver, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories and most recently, In These Times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Engineering
ISBN : CHI:098722109

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The Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : SUE. TUNGATE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1858587239

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MATTHEW BOULTON AND THE SOHO MINT by SUE. TUNGATE Pdf

Author : Clive Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082754931

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Three Continents, One History by Clive Harris Pdf

The Three Continents One History project was launched on 25th March 2007 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The day marked our commemoration of the millions that were killed and enslaved. It is fitting that it began the start of our journey to uncover the role that Birmingham played in this. The project will inform all sections of society about one of the bleakest chapters in the history of humankind. It will explore the Caribbean experience of slavery as well as analyze the socio-economic links and legacies of the transatlantic era. Project from New Style Radio and the Frantz Fanon Research Unit - Using primary and secondary research, workshops, presentations and debates and a documentary series on New Style Radio 98.7fm.