Animal-powered Machines
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Shire Library
ISBN-10
0852637101
ISBN-13
9780852637104
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Shire Publications
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 20th, 2008
Print length
32 Pages
Weight
94 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 14.40 x 0.30 cms
Product Classification:
Industrial archaeologyIndustrial archaeology
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Identifies the various types of animal powered machines, the jobs they performed and how they evolved with the onset of the industrial revolution.
This is a book about a little known element in the history of motive power, the animal powered machine. Windmills and watermills survive in most parts of Britain, but animal-powered machines, whether vertical treadwheels or horizontal horse engines, are hardly known, despite the significant contribution they made to the history of mining and agriculture in the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. The development of the railways and the availability of coal caused the use of animal power to decline rapidly, but a number of these early machines still survive today. The author identifies the various types of machine, the jobs they performed and how they evolved with the onset of the industrial revolution.
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