Age of Machinery. Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850

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Deals with textile machinery production industry only. Scholarly account of the pioneering engineers and engineering businesses who built the first generations of modern textile machines 'almost all working within the textile communities in Northern England ... It probes their origins and skills, the sources of their inspiration and impetus, and how it was possible to develop a high tech, factory-centred, world leading market in textile machinery virtually from scratch'. Much focused on Keighley and Leeds. Sections include 'Coming of machinery'; 'Age of machinery'; 'Shaping an industry'; 'Machine makers'; 'Ingenious mechanics'; 'Social life of the engineer'; 'Innovating'; 'Reaching maturity'. Provides schedules of: 1] 'Keighley textile engineers' [pp260-9] giving short profiles of 30 engineers; 2] 'Leeds engineering businesses before 1830' [pp270-89] again giving profiles of eight major figures and leading businesses and also of 14 'foundries, forges, engine makers, lesser workshops'. The Keighley engineers include: Lodge Calvert, 1776-1859; James Greenwood; Richard Hattesley, 1761-1829; John Inman; William Lawson, dc1802, & William P Lawson, b1783; John & Titus Longbottom, 1747-1818, 1775-1831; Michael Merrall, 1775-1819; John Nicholson; Adam Pearson, bc1756; George Richardson, b1771; Berry Smith, 1772-1836; William Smith, 1774-1850; Joseph Tempest, 1753-1836; John Weatherhead, c1754-c98; Thomas Mills, c1786-c1861; Charles & Allan Smith. The Leeds major figures are: William & Joseph Drabble; Peter Fairbairn; John Jubb sen, 1748-1808, and jun, 1775-1816; Samuel Lawson, 1782-1866; Maclea & March; Murray & Wood; Zebulon Stick,1782-185s. The lesser businesses include: Martin Cawood; Richard Cluderay, c1778-1844; William Farmery; Jonathan Hattersley, 1800-63; James Procter; Richard Pullan & Sons; Salt & Gothard; George & Joseph Shaw; William Varley