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Author | : Mark Amies |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 144569803X |
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A fascinating insight, derived from a regular feature on the Robert Elms show, into some of the forgotten industries of London, lavishly illustrated throughout.
Author | : Geoff Marshall |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 075249239X |
Download London's Industrial Heritage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous and often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? The story behind the many industries found in the capital is described in this unique book. London once had scores of breweries; the world's first plastic material was synthesised in the East End; there was even a gasworks opposite the Palace of Westminster. Clerkenwell was a centre for watch and clock makers; the River Thames used to be full of colliers bringing coal from Newcastle; Joseph Bramah invented his water closet and hydraulic pump here, and Henry Maudslay made machines to make machines. Many household names began in London: Schweppes, Crosse & Blackwell, and Vauxhall motor cars. The list of fascinating facts goes on. In this, the first book of its kind on the subject, Geoff Marshall provides an enthralling overview of London's industrial face through history.
Author | : Geoff Marshall |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 075249239X |
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Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous and often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? The story behind the many industries found in the capital is described in this unique book. London once had scores of breweries; the world’s first plastic material was synthesised in the East End; there was even a gasworks opposite the Palace of Westminster. Clerkenwell was a centre for watch and clock makers; the River Thames used to be full of colliers bringing coal from Newcastle; Joseph Bramah invented his water closet and hydraulic pump here, and Henry Maudslay made machines to make machines. Many household names began in London: Schweppes, Crosse & Blackwell, and Vauxhall motor cars. The list of fascinating facts goes on. In this, the first book of its kind on the subject, Geoff Marshall provides an enthralling overview of London’s industrial face through history.
Author | : Aubrey Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Industrial archaeology |
ISBN | : 9780678057476 |
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Author | : Leslie Tomory |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421422042 |
Download The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.
Author | : L. D. Schwarz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1992-10-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521403650 |
Download London in the Age of Industrialisation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Analyses the effects of the industrial revolution on London's working population.
Author | : David Barnett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781350182431 |
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By 1800 London was the world's greatest city and at the centre of the world's greatest empire. This book sets out to show that it was also at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. Traditional historiography has regarded the city as a minor player in the Industrial Revolution - "a storm that passed over London and broke elsewhere" - but David Barnett argues that, in addition to providing financial and other essential service skills, the capital was at the forefront of industrial development. The study is based on hard data, such as insurance records and trade directories, and provides a mine of information for research as well as presenting a portrait of London during a period of rapid and unprecedented development as the world's first great modern industrial city.
Author | : Brian Belton |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750965797 |
Download The Thames Ironworks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Located in the heart of London’s East End the Thames Ironworks might be described as characteristic of the industrial and social landscape of the Victorian era. This successful enterprise, under the respected Hills family, undertook projects in civil engineering, electrical engineering, shipping and motoring. But as well as providing employment, the ironworks was also central to the social lives of its workers. Its football team, founded by Arnold Hills in 1895, was destined to become world-famous as West Ham United. Author Brian Belton explores how the Victorian values of commercialism, religion, philanthropy and patriarchy that made this giant of industry a success were inextricably linked with a sense of fair play, competitive spirit and the growth of football as a national obsession.Peppered with the songs and memories of a treasured cockney region, this is an entertaining portrait of ships, industry, sport and, most of all, the people of the Docklands communities that relied on the Ironworks for their daily bread.
Author | : David Barnett |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1998-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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By 1800 London was the world's greatest city and at the centre of the world's greatest empire. This book sets out to show that, in addition to providing financial and other essential service skills, the capital was also at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.
Author | : David C. Barnett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Industries |
ISBN | : |
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