Windmills and Waterwheels Explained
Windmills and Waterwheels Explained

Author: Stan Yorke

Publisher: Countryside Books (GB)

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846740114

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It is amazing to discover that there are well over 400 waterwheels and windmills open to the public in England and Wales. Many of them are in excellent working order and provide a valuable insight into the partnership between man and machine going back, not just to the Industrial Revolution, but to a time of 1,000 years ago or more. Stan Yorke is an engineer and designer with a lifelong interest in early machinery and the industry it powered. He describes the background of both waterwheels and windmills and the crucial part they played in the country's development. In particular, he explains in simple language, without recourse to overly technical terms, how the different machines work. The book is illustrated with photographs from the author, together with numerous line diagrams and drawings by Trevor Yorke. It also includes a list of those open to the public.

Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution
Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution

Author: Robert Glen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1000639843

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This title, first published in 1984, focuses primarily on the early Industrial Revolution (c. 1780-1820) in the Stockport district. As the Industrial Revolution in England was the first instance of successful industrialisation, it can still provide many social and economic lessons and also furnish essential evidence for continuing debate over ideology and theory. Therefore, this title will be of interest to students of both history and economics.

Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution
Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Author: Albert Edward Musson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9782881243820

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Concentrating on the Industrial Revolution as experienced in Great Britain (and, within that sphere, mainly on the early development of the engineering and chemical industries), the authors develop the thesis that the interaction between theorists and men of practical affairs was much closer, more complex and more consequential than some historians of science have held it to be. Deeply researched, gracefully argued and fully documented. First published in 1969, and established now as a "classic" in the field, the present edition has a new foreword by Margaret C. Jacob. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
Rethinking the Industrial Revolution

Author: Michael Andrew Žmolek

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 935

ISBN-13: 9004251790

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In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion.

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West
Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

Author: Georges Duby

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1998-01-29

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9780812216745

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"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."--

Wind Energy in America
Wind Energy in America

Author: Robert W. Righter

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780806128122

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Relates the history of the efforts to capture the power of wind for electricity, from the first European windmills to California's wind farms of the late twentieth century.

Wind
Wind

Author: Louise M. Pryke

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2023-07-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1789147522

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A natural and cultural history of wind from ancient deity to Twister. By turns creative and destructive, wind spreads seeds, fills sails, and disperses the energy of the sun. Worshipped since antiquity, wind has molded planets, determined battles, and shaped the evolution of life on earth—yet this invisible element remains intangible and unpredictable. In this book, Louise M. Pryke explores wind’s natural history as well as its cultural life in myth, religion, art, and literature. Beyond these ancient imaginings, Pryke also traces how wind inspired modern scientific innovations and appeared in artistic works as diverse as the art of Van Gogh, the poetry of Keats, and the blockbuster film.