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Above Ground
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Cave Ins
Choke Damp
coal mining history
Crucible Method
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Fireman
Glamorganshire Canal
Glasgow University
GWR.
Harecastle Tunnel
industrial city growth
Isambard Kingdom Brunei
Local Government Act
Menai Straits
Molten Cast Iron
Molten Iron
Municipal Reform Act
parliamentary reform impacts
Pit Ponies
Planet Gears
Richard Arkwright
Richard Oastler
River Irwell
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Smelting Iron Ore
steam engine development
technological change in nineteenth-century Britain
textile manufacturing processes
Turnpike Trusts
Undershot Wheels
urbanisation in Britain
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415759298
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries Great Britain changed from a mainly agricultural country into a mainly industrial one. Because the change came about so quickly we can indeed describe it as a revolution. This period of a hundred years might well be called 'the age of steam power’. Between them steam, coal and iron transform ed Britain’s industry, brought about a revolution in road, rail and sea transport, and led to the rapid growth of new industrial cities. Both industry and Parliament were unprepared for such great changes in so short a time, and they often had to solve serious problems with little past experience to guide them. In the pages that follow you can read more about the pioneers, their spectacular inventions, and the opposition they often faced.
Mary Beggs-Humphreys, Hugh Gregor, Darlow Humphreys
