Showing posts with label industrial revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industrial revolution. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

York manufacturing history

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 A cathedral city second only to Canterbury, York had a university only from 1963, but as I tell below it was a centre of learning. It’s ear...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Huddersfield manufacturing history

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 Huddersfield provided a commercial centre at its famous Cloth Hall for the many thousands of home working wool weavers in the surrounding d...
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...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Lessons learnt from a quarter of a millennium of British Manufacturing

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Text of talk to University of Lincoln engineering students – December 2024 I draw extensively on my books How Britain Shaped the Manufa...
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...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Swindon manufacturing history

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Swindon would become one of the great 19th century railway towns, but at the end of the 18th century it was a place largely passed by. Kenne...