The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850

by Gillian Cookson

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.

The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes their origins and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783272767
• ISBN13: 9781783272761
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"