Author: W. FelkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures: Centenary Edition
Felkin's History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures
Author: Stanley David ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hosiery
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures. 1967 Centenary Ed
Author: William FelkinFelkin's History of the Machine-wrought Hoisery and Lace Manufactures
Author: Marshall Hall (1790-1857)
Author: Diana E. ManuelPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051839050
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Marshall Hall was trained as a physician in the early nineteenth century, scientifically oriented, University of Edinburgh Medical School. The son of a Methodist cotton manufacturer and bleacher at Nottingham, Hall believed that in science lay the future for progress in medicine. Following early work on diagnosis, on women's disorders and on blood-letting, Hall came to specialise in the nervous system and in particular on the concept of reflex action. For Hall, who proposed a mechanistic explanation of reflex action, Galenic animal spirits and souls in decapitated creatures were out. A superb experimentalist, Hall strove to establish experimental medicine (physiology) as the basis of the medical curriculum instead of anatomy, the long standing domain of the surgeons. They were among the strongest critics of Hall's vivisection procedures, despite his efforts to establish a Code of Practice. Hall was involved in several controversies within and without the Royal Society where he was victimised by its Physiological Committee. He addressed a range of social and public health issues including the abolition of slavery, and devised a new method of resuscitation and a more sensitive physiological test for strychnine detection. He also proposed plans for improving and linking sewage disposal and the transport system of the metropolis.
Elizabeth Heyrick
Author: Jocelyn RobsonPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399068407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Elizabeth Heyrick fought fiercely for the rights of oppressed people. After a disastrous marriage, she became a prolific pamphleteer, a Quaker and one of the most outspoken anti-slavery campaigners of her time. Despite renewed contemporary interest in slavery, and in the stories of those who opposed it, female abolitionists are still much less well known than their male counterparts. Yet they were often more radical and more daring. Heyrick defied male authority and she led others in challenging William Wilberforce and his colleagues to fight for the immediate rather than the gradual abolition of slavery. This book is the first full length biography of Elizabeth Heyrick and it sets her life in the context of the British anti-slavery movement of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She was a woman who dared to put her head above the parapet and to call out those responsible for one of the worst abuses of human rights in history. She was courageous, loyal and uncompromising, and did not suffer fools gladly. It was not until long after her death in 1831 that her contribution to the anti-slavery cause started to be recognized and even today, she remains hidden in the shadows of the movement. Using archival records and recently unearthed family materials, as well as contemporary fiction and memoirs, the author creates a compelling account of an unsettled life set in turbulent times.
The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of the English Midlands
Author: John GreenwoodPublisher:
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Category : Industrial archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer
Author: John R. HarrisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351927779
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Britain and France were the leading industrial nations in 18th-century Europe. This book examines the rivalry which existed between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the edge - particularly in the new coal-based technologies. Despite the British Act of 1719 which outlawed industrial espionage and technology transfer, France continued to bring key industrial workers from Britain and to acquire British machinery and production methods. Drawing on a mass of unpublished archival material, this book investigates the nature and application of British laws and the involvement of some major British industrialists in these issues, and discusses the extent to which French espionage had any real success. In the process it presents an in-depth understanding of 18th-century economies, and the cultures and bureaucracies which were so important in shaping economic life. Above all, the late John Harris saw the history of industrial espionage as ’one means of restoring the thoughts and activities of human beings to the centre stage of industrial history’. These are the stories of individuals - Holkers, Trudaines, Wilkinsons, or Milnes - and their impact on the world.
Geographies of England
Author: Alan R. H. BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822619
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is the pioneering exploration of the history of a fundamentally geographical concept - the North-South divide of England. Six essays treating different historical periods in time are integrated by two geographical questions and a concludingessay reviews the social construction of England.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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