Author: Association of British Chemical ManufacturersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
British Chemicals
Author: Association of British Chemical ManufacturersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The British Manufacturer
Author: The Structure of British Industry
Author: Duncan BurnPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
British Chemical Trade in 1928
Author: Homer Sherman FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Foreign Directories
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The United Kingdom
Author: Hugh D. ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Survey of Industries
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Industry and TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings
Author: Chemicals
Author: A. W. AshePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World, 1851–1951
Author: Philip Hamlyn WilliamsPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399015184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors allowed it to remain top manufacturing dog well into the twentieth century while other countries were busy playing catch up. Through two world wars and the surrounding years, British manufacturing remained strong, albeit while ceding the lead to the United States. This book seeks to tell the remarkable story of British manufacturing, using the Great Exhibition of 1851 as a prism. Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole had conceived an idea of bringing together exhibits from manufacturers across the world to show to its many millions of visitors the pre-eminence of the British. 1851 was not the start, but rather a pause for a bask in glory. This book traces back from the exhibits in Hyde Park’s Crystal Palace to identify the factors that gave rise to this pre-eminence, then follows developments up until the Festival of Britain exactly one century later. Steam power and communication by electric telegraph, both British inventions, predated the Exhibition. After it came the sewing machine and bicycle, motor car and aeroplane, but also electrical power, radio and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries where Britain played a leading part.