Download or read book Minutes of the Evidence given before the Committee of Privileges to whom the Petition of Edward Timewell Brydges Clerk claiming the Barony of Chandos was referred 21 Dec 1790 29 April 1803 With a genealogical table written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the London Water Industry 1580 1820 written by Leslie Tomory and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Sansons from Private Notes and Documents 1688 1847 Volume I written by Henry Sanson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of Eminent Serjeants at law of the English Bar written by Humphry William Woolrych and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of the Family of Maunsell Mansell Mansel written by Edward Phillips Statham and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Temptation and Denial written by Adam Nicke and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Devil visit 19th century Wales? Or was it, as Lord Byron once suggested, 'the mind making substance and giving breath to forms that can outlive all flesh'? 'Temptation and Denial' is a tale of immortal love: a love that can survive physical death. Following on from the cult success of 'Grim Fairy Tales', British author Adam Nicke again explores the tortured world of Dark Romanticism. Born just a few miles from where Welsh writer Arthur Machen was born, Adam Nicke grew up in the same small Welsh town as JK Rowling. In common with those writers, Adam Nicke also explores the supernatural.
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Download or read book Private Chronicles written by Robert A. Fothergill and published by London : Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pirotechnia written by Vannoccio Biringuccio and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1966-03-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally printed in 1540, this classic work on the field of metallurgy marked the beginning of a true technological literature. Biringuccio's Pirotechnia is the earliest printed work to cover the whole field of metallurgy. Originally printed in Venice in 1540, this was the first book to deal with the applied metal arts and processes of ore reduction and to describe the techniques which had been in development since the bronze age. Written by a master craftsman in a time when knowledge was kept alive by the spoken rather than the written word, this classic marked the beginning of a true technological literature, with both craftsmanship and science united by a writer's pen to form a record of an important facet of man's achievement as a stimulus to further advance. After the publication of the Pirotechnia, many followed Biringuccio's example, and as a result of this growing literature of technological practice and experimental fact, science eventually became the concern of the educated man.
