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9780415382229

The Industrial Revolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415382229

  • ISBN10:

    041538222X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-04-17
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Table of Contents

Introductionp. 6
Why we talk of an Industrial Revolution
The Story of Ironp. 7
Smelting iron ore
Early ways of working with iron
How early smiths made things from wrought-iron
Smelting with charcoal
The dwindling forests
Smelting with coke: the Darbys of Coalbrookdale
Wrought-iron: Henry Cort of Gosport
Puddling
Rolling
Neilson's hot air blast
Nasmyth's steam hammer
Steel
Benjamin Huntsman: the crucible method
Bessemer: the converter
W. and F. Siemens: the open-hearth method
Thomas and Gilchrist: basic steel
The Story of Coal (1700-1870)p. 14
Problems and dangers
Savery's pump
Newcomen's pump
The Davy lamp
The Revolution in Spinning and Weavingp. 18
Old ways of spinning and weaving
New inventions in spinning
John Kay: the flying shuttle
James Hargreaves: the spinning jenny
Richard Arkwright: the water frame
Samuel Crompton: the mule
Weaving
Edmund Cartright: the power loom
The plight of the workers
From Water Power to Steam Powerp. 23
The waterwheel
Steam power
Newcomen's steam pump
James Watt: the steam engine
John Roebuck
Matthew Boulton
John Wilkinson
Factory Conditionsp. 27
Some reformers
Michael Sadler
Richard Oastler
Anthony Ashley Cooper (Lord Shaftesbury)
Robert Owen
The Factory Acts
Changes in the Townsp. 31
Overcrowding
The Municipal Reform Act, 1835
Edwin Chadwick
Other Acts of Parliament, 1853-75
The Revolution in Communicationsp. 35
Roads
Roads in the eighteenth century
The turnpike trusts
Metcalfe - Telford - Macadam
Coaches
The Royal Mail service
Canals
James Brindley
The 'canal mania'
Construction of a canal
Why the canals declined
Railways
Richard Trevithick
George Stephenson
Opposition to the railways
The railway builders
Robert Stephenson
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Parliament intervenes
The effects of the railways
Steamships
William Symington and the Charlotte Dundas
Henry Bell and the Comet
Robert Fulton and the Clermont
Crossing the Atlantic
The Savannah-the Great Western-the Sirius-the Great Britain
Samuel Cunard and the Royal Mail
Brunel and the Great Eastern
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 48
Metric Conversion Table
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