1st Edition

Industrial Archaeology An Introduction

By Kenneth Hudson Copyright 1963
218 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When this book was originally published in 1963, this was becoming a topic of lively interest and controversy among archaeologists, historians, architects and engineers. This book discusses the aims and methods of the science, giving examples of the... Read more

Foreword  1. What is Industrial Archaeology?  2. The Urgency of Industrial Archaeology  3. The Approach  4. The Pace and Pattern of the Industrial Revolution  5. Coal and Metals  6. Power  7. Textiles, Pottery and Glass, Brewing and Distilling  8. Railways, Inland Waterways and Roads  9. Building Materials  10. Farm Buildings and the Industrial Revolution  11. The Documentations and Recording of Industrial Archaeology

Biography

Hudson, Kenneth