Showing posts with label Manufacturing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manufacturing. Show all posts
Friday, April 4, 2025

Watford manufacturing history

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 Dating from Anglo-Saxon times, Watford was probably originally a crossing place traversing the marshy Coln Valley and it was this valley th...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

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 Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Manchester's 19th century tool makers

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Manchester's booming cotton industry with its demands on mechanisation was the obvious place for an ambitious engineer to pursue his bus...

Coventry on the cusp of the twentieth century

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Coventry was a city of engineering skills honed on watchmaking and it attracted first bicycle makers and then the first motor vehicle compan...
Friday, November 22, 2024

London's 19th century tool makers

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For the Machine tools of various kinds had been used around the world for centuries; there is some evidence of a lathe being used in China i...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Leicester Manufacturing History

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 My exploration of British manufacturing has been sector by sector and chronological. It is time now to begin to join up the dots and explor...
Friday, May 10, 2024

The building blocks of manufacturing: coal and metals

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 Coal had ‘tentacles in every part of this changing society’. Landowners loved it, for it lay under their land; farmers benefitted from its ...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Who else shaped the manufacturing world - American steel

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 The story of American steel making begins in the wake of the Civil War. A number of academics take a start date of 1867 which coincides wit...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Derby and the Museum of Making

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 The city of Derby is a home of British engineering and of probably the first textile factory at the Silk Mill. This has been repurposed to ...

Overseas exhibitors at the Great Exhibition

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 Continuing my attempt to address the question of who else shaped the manufacturing world, I draw on a series of papers given to the Society...
Monday, December 18, 2023

My talk to the Leicester Historical Association on How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing world

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I want this evening to talk about my quest to discover How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World. My quest began in April 2014. I brought d...