Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840952
S. K. Jones
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1840948
R. Fitzgerald
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1788803
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1853952
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1754629
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1782619
D. Miller, D. Rudder
Examines the origins, and working life of the oldest surviving rotative steam engine, the Boulton & Watt engine installed in Whitbread’s brewery, London, in 1785, and its museum career in Sydney, Australia
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2019.1639409
David. Hardwick, Steve Grudgings
This article is an initial interpretation of the features revealed by the South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group’s documentary research and archaeological investigations of the Serridge Newcomen Engine. The site is located in the Parish of Westerleigh in part of the Coalpit Heath Coal Basin in South Gloucestershire. Excavations have confirmed the location of the engine house constructed c1790 and the presence of significant remains. Two storeys of the engine house and several related features have been uncovered and conserved with underground access maintained. These features and the interpretation of some of the anomalies they present form the basis of this account. Consideration is given to the function of the multiple beams, calculations of the cylinder size and principle beam length, the number of storeys, consideration of a second shaft as a possible reservoir, the purpose of a circular tunnel through the engine house and the general internal layout.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1782618
J. Aylen
The American continuous wide strip rolling mill halved the cost, improved the quality and markedly increased the size of steel sheets after 1926. These mills diffused rapidly in the USA to supply a growing market for autobodies, canstock and consumer goods. European steelmakers adopted this radical, large scale technology during the late 1930’s. Pre-war adopters in Europe briefly interpreted strip mill technology to meet political priorities, market circumstances and local technical preferences. The UK steel industry bought standard mill designs directly from two US suppliers. Soviet and German adoption was shaped by political regimes of the time. The German mill was the product of local innovation and espionage. In France, Renault developed small scale technology. Marshall Aid made post-war adopters conform to US technological norms, with the Cold War influencing the location of strip mills in Europe after 1948. The wide strip mill contributed to the Americanisation of European industry after World War II.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2020.1787807
B. Ronalds
Established in 1822 to process the coal tar and ammoniacal liquor residues of the Edinburgh gasworks, the Bonnington Chemical Works was an early and unusual facility in an era when coal gas residues were generally regarded as a burden. Its special place in the history of fossil fuel chemical manufacture has gone unnoticed and its operations have not been analysed previously, despite there being considerable source material. Here the lifecycle of the plant is explored in detail to understand its instigation, subsequent growth, and why it later closed, with emphasis on the ongoing evolution of its product range and corresponding manufacturing methods, production scale and prices. A key element in its extended success – the integrated scientific, technical and commercial skill of the various managers – is illustrated, as are interrelationships of the Bonnington works with the gradual development of the overall coal tar sector and broader industrial, political and social influences.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17581206.2019.1669364
M. Pierce
Melbourne’s boom period in the mid-1880s saw the inauguration of a cable tram system that grew by 1891 to encompass seventeen routes with a combined length of 46 miles (73 km) of double track. In its extent, it was only surpassed by San Francisco’s cable tram network. The 43.7 miles (70 km) of double track, constructed by the Melbourne Tramways Trust (representing twelve municipalities), and leased for operation by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company had the distinction of being the largest cable tram network in the world to be operated by a single company. It evolved from the determined vision of Francis Boardman Clapp and was implemented under the guidance of renowned cable tram engineer George Smith Duncan. The last cable tram service closed in 1940. This article focuses particularly on the engineering aspects of the system and thus on its infrastructure.
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