Download or read book The Rendel Connection written by Michael R. Lane and published by Quiller. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is The Story Of The Civil Engineering Consultancy Firm Rendel Palmer And Tritton Over Its First 150 Years; It Also Incorporates The First Biography Of Its Founder James Meadows Rendel. Condition Good.
Download or read book Armstrongs of Elswick written by Kenneth Warren and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-12-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armstrong, the engineers, armament makers and naval shipbuilders was set up in 1847 by William Armstrong at Elswick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. This book analyzes Armstrong's 80 years rise, decline and reorganization, treating it, in some ways, as a case study of British industrial malaise.
Download or read book The Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter A Biography of James Rendel Harris 1852 1941 written by Alessandro Falcetta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full biography of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941), Bible and patristic scholar, manuscript collector, Quaker theologian, devotional writer, traveller, folklorist, and relief worker. Drawing on published and unpublished sources gathered in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, many of which were previously unknown, Alessandro Falcetta tells the story of Harris's life and works set against the background of the cultural and political life of contemporary Britain. Falcetta traces the development of Harris's career from Cambridge to Birmingham, the story of his seven journeys to the Middle East, and of his many campaigns, from religious freedom to conscientious objection. The book focuses upon Harris's innovative contributions in the field of textual and literary criticism, his acquisitions of hundreds of manuscripts from the Middle East, his discoveries of early Christian works – in particular the Odes of Solomon – his Quaker beliefs and his studies in the cult of twins. His enormous output and extensive correspondence reveal an indefatigable genius in close contact with the most famous scholars of his time, from Hort to Harnack, Nestle, the 'Sisters of Sinai', and Frazer.
Download or read book William Armstrong written by Henrietta Heald and published by McNidder and Grace Limited. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century – a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Armstrong's industrial powerhouse Elswick Works on the Tyne employed over 25,000 people in its heyday manufacturing hydraulic cranes, warships and armaments. He was a visionary who was loved, and hated, and feared in equal measure. While he brought great fame and fortune to his native Newcastle upon Tyne, and to his country as a whole, he was condemned in some quarters as 'a merchant of death' for his manufacturing of weapons of war. 'This intimate, authoritative portrait reveals as never before the extraordinary achievements of a multi-faceted Victorian giant.' David Kynaston 'An excellent book – hugely enjoyable.' Alexander Armstrong
Download or read book Imperial Connections written by Thomas R. Metcalf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the interests of colonial India and Britain alike. Metcalf examines such topics as law codes and administrative forms as they were shaped by Indian precedents; the Indian Army's role in securing Malaya, Africa, and Mesopotamia for the empire; the employment of Indians, especially Sikhs, in colonial policing; and the transformation of East Africa into what was almost a province of India through the construction of the Uganda railway. He concludes with a look at the decline of this Indian Ocean system after 1920 and considers how far India's participation in it opened opportunities for Indians to be a colonizing as well as a colonized people.
Download or read book My Commonplace Book written by Mary Danvers Stocks and published by London : P. Davies. This book was released on 1970 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Engines Enterprise written by John Reynolds and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive biography of pioneering British automobile and aircraft engineer, Sir Harry Ricardo (1885-1974). In it, author John Reynolds tells the background story of several key engineering firsts including the design of innovative engines for tanks, airships, motorcycles and cars. It offers new insight into the world of pioneering engineers during the first part of the 20th century, using company and family sources to provide a portrait of one of the unsung heroes of motoring history.
Download or read book The Rendel Harris Papyri written by Nikolaos Gonis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume continues the publication of The Rendel Harris Papyri (vol. I, 1936; vol. II, 1985), offering editions, with translations and interpretations, of eighty-one Greek papyri. Three are literary or subliterary, the others documentary. With a few exceptions, the texts included are from Oxyrhynchus. They range in date from the early fi rst to the late seventh/early eighth century, but the majority come from late antiquity, with about twenty of them dating from the fifth century.
Download or read book Leiden Oriental Connections 1850 1940 written by Willem Otterspeer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits of Departed Worthies Connected with the Counties of Devon and Cornwall on Loan in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in the City of Exeter written by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution written by T.C. Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. This book is an outstanding product of St Helens, as remarkable in its way as sheetglass and Beechams pills. It is the first full scale nineteenth century history of a small industrial town as distinct from the bigger and better-known cities and as such it deserves to be very widely read and studied.
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Download or read book The Political Life of Josiah C Wedgwood written by Paul Mulvey and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his day, "Josh" Wedgwood was one of Britain's best-known and most outspoken Radical politicians. He served in three wars, and, in a Parliamentary career lasting from 1906 to 1943, first with the Liberals, and then with Labour, he fought to uphold personal liberty and to limit the power of the state. Instead of the collectivism of socialists or social imperialists, Wedgwood advocated a Radical vision of Victorian Individualism as the solution to the problems of social inequality at home and growing threats abroad that Britain faced in the first half of the twentieth century. His support of individual freedom, a redistribution of landowner's wealth, and a voluntary and democratic British Empire received only limited support in his own lifetime, but he fought for them with vigour and passion throughout his career. This study of his life throws new light upon some of the defining ideological and policy issues of the most turbulent period of modern British history. Paul Mulvey teaches at the London School of Economics.
