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  • Making an Industrial Revolution
    Gillian Cookson
    A new look at Britain’s industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge a...
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    32,87 €

  • Making an Industrial Revolution
    Gillian Cookson
    A new look at Britain’s industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge a...
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    117,33 €

  • A Victorian Scientist and Engineer
    Colin Hempstead / Gillian Cookson
    This title was first published in 2000:  In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his reputation as a pioneer in the new world of electrical engineering, known for his work on undersea telegraphs and later on the electrical transportation system known as telpherage. Equally at ease in the realms of theory and practice, from 1850 until his death in 1885 Jenkin eng...
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    61,15 €

  • Age of Machinery
    Gillian Cookson
    The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes their origins and skills, the sources of their inspiration and impetus, and ho...
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    32,54 €