The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District
Author : Alfred Fell
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Furness
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Fell
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Furness
ISBN :
Author : Charles K. Hyde
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691198411
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 : Chris Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351887718
The essays in this volume, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the Alps and Spain, and supply an authoritative picture of industrial transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century. In this period iron making in continental Europe was transformed by the take-up of technologies such as coke smelting and iron puddling that had already revolutionised the British iron industry. The transfer of British technologies was fundamental to European industrialisation, but that transfer was not straightforward. The techniques that had proved so successful in Britain had to be adapted to local circumstances elsewhere, for charcoal-fired techniques proved surprisingly durable. More often than not, as these studies show, coal-fired methods were incorporated into traditional production systems, making for the proliferation of technological hybrids. Overall, it is diversity that stands out. Some European regions (southern Belgium) came near to the British model; others (Spain) persisted with charcoal technology into the late 19th century. Some countries (Sweden) adopted British organisational principles but not the reliance on coal; others (Russia) maintained different iron making sectors - one coal-based, the other loyal to charcoal - in parallel.
Author : Marie B. Rowlands
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN : 9780719005824
Author : Jason Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317024931
For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake District and its construction as a cultural landscape from the mid eighteenth century to the present day. It critically analyses the relationships between history, heritage, landscape, culture and policy that underlie the activities of the National Park, Cumbria Tourism and the proposals to recognise the Lake District as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It examines all aspects of the Lake District's history and identity, brings the story up to date and looks at current issues in conservation, policy and tourism marketing. In doing so, it not only provides a unique and valuable analysis of this region, but offers insights into the history of cultural and heritage tourism in Britain and beyond.
Author : J. Bowen
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1909291633
English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization producing new challenges and opportunities for inhabitants of rural communities. However, our understanding of this period has been shaped by the compartmentalization of history into medieval and early-modern specialisms and by the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism and landlord-tenant relations. Inspired by the classic works of Tawney and Postan, this collection of essays examines their relevance to historians today, distinguishing between their contrasting approaches to the pre-industrial economy and exploring the development of agriculture and rural industry; changes in land and property rights; and competition over resources in the English countryside.
Author : Charles Murray Lowther Bouch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Cumberland (England)
ISBN :
Author : Marilyn Palmer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415166263
Industrial Archaeology sets out a coherent methodology for the discipline which expands on and extends beyond the purely functional analysis of industrial landscapes, structures and artefacts to their cultural meaning.
Author : Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1919
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Reinhold Rücker Angerstein
Publisher : NMSI Trading Ltd
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781900747240
Reinhold Rücker Angerstein was an eighteenth-century industrial spy. He travelled widely in Europe in the 1750s, supported by the Swedish government, gathering information about trade and emerging technology. The diary of his trip to Britain is extraordinary for its quality of observation and insight, its comparative nature and the large number of detailed illustrations. The breadth of its coverage is astounding: coal, tin and copper mines, porcelain factories, iron foundries, smithies and workshops, rolling and slitting mills, chemical factories, water works and so on. This English-language translation provides, for the first time, Angerstein's work in accessible form. It will be of immense significance to historians of the period.