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Book Synopsis The Great Explosion by : Brian Dillon
Download or read book The Great Explosion written by Brian Dillon and published by Penguin Ireland. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kent marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a remarkable piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity the interaction of human imperatives and the natural world in one of Britain's strangest and most distinctive landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry form one of our most brilliant writers." --Jacket flap.
Book Synopsis Dangerous Energy by : Wayne D. Cocroft
Download or read book Dangerous Energy written by Wayne D. Cocroft and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a national study of the explosives industry and provides a framework for identification of its industrial archaeology and social history. Few monuments of gunpowder manufacture survive in Britain from the Middle Ages, although its existence is documented. Late 17th-century water-powered works are identifiable but sparse. In the later 18th century, however, the industry was transformed by state acquisition of key factories, notably at Faversham and at Waltham Abbey.In the mid-19th century developments in Britain paralleled those in continental Europe and in America, namely a shift to production on an industrial scale related to advances in armaments technology. The urgency and large-scale demands of the two world wars brought state-directed or state-led solutions to explosives production in the 20th century. Yhe book’s concluding section looks at planning, preservation, conservation and presentation in relation to prospective future uses of these sites.
Book Synopsis Kent's Industrial Heritage by : James Preston
Download or read book Kent's Industrial Heritage written by James Preston and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Preston looks at the industrial heritage of garden of England. It illustrates what remains extant in what is now essentially a post-industrial era.
Download or read book Explosives written by G I Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives and on their social and historical impact, the author relates a story of remarkable international and human endeavour. Many of those involved - Roger Bacon, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, Robert Oppenheimer - are famed worldwide; others, such as C F Schonbein, William Bickford, Sir Frederick Abel and Charles E Munroe, though less well-known, also played critical roles. Alongside their achievements, this book highlights the uses and impact of explosives in both war and terrorism, and in civil engineering, quarrying, mining, demolition, fireworks manufacture and shooting for sport. In many cases explosives are seen to have had a significant historical impact as, for example, in the early use of gunpowder in the American Civil War, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the worldwide opening up of canals and railways.
Book Synopsis Early Modern Kent, 1540-1640 by : Michael Zell
Download or read book Early Modern Kent, 1540-1640 written by Michael Zell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Kent offers an accessible but scholarly introduction to the country's history during a century of extraordinary change."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Industrial Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of South-eastern England by :
Download or read book The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of South-eastern England written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Historical Development of the Port of Faversham 1580-1780 by : Paul Wilkinson
Download or read book The Historical Development of the Port of Faversham 1580-1780 written by Paul Wilkinson and published by BAR British Series. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first comprehensive historical and archaeological investigation into the maritime organization of the port of Faversham, Kent, SE England. The period examined is 1580-1780. Faversham, a multi-functional town, was well placed to take advantage of its maritime position in the Swale, its closeness to Canterbury, and the need to ship grain to London from this fertile crescent of North Kent. An examination of the original and early development of the port is complemented by an analysis of the ships and port administration. Unique methods of ship operation and manning are investigated, and a comprehensive survey of the shipping fleets of Kent during their formative years undertaken. This study is also concerned with analyzing the variety of mercantile responses to marketing opportunities. Apart from providing London with ever-increasing agricultural cargoes (and return cargoes of manufactured goods), Faversham developed a very healthy trade in wool, oysters, fishing, and the manufacture of gunpowder. This movement of commodities is investigated, and the inter-play between changes in production patterns assessed, while the significance of the maritime development of the port provides ample scope for pioneering a study of port logistics and organization. An examination of the origins and early developments of Faversham's maritime industry is long overdue, and the uncovering of new evidence makes it possible to unravel the complexities of this mercantile activity during Faversham 's formative years.
Book Synopsis Industrial Archaeology by : Arthur Raistrick
Download or read book Industrial Archaeology written by Arthur Raistrick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Archaeology (1972) presents an in-depth investigation of the nature, methods and materials of the archaeology of industry in the UK, from pre-Roman times to the late twentieth century. It studies topics such as coal and lead mining, textiles, wagon-ways and railways, canals, iron, steel and chemicals, glass-making, agriculture, brewing and many other trades, illustrated by a large number of examples (with photographs of many now-demolished sites) from many time periods and regions. It also deals with the role of excavation and field work, the problems of preservation and restoration, and place of various kinds of museum.
Download or read book Gunpowder written by Brenda J. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Faversham Through Time by : Robert Turcan
Download or read book Faversham Through Time written by Robert Turcan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Faversham has changed and developed over the last century.
Book Synopsis Oare Gunpowder Works, Faversham, Kent by : Wayne Cocroft
Download or read book Oare Gunpowder Works, Faversham, Kent written by Wayne Cocroft and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economy of Kent, 1640-1914 by : Alan Armstrong
Download or read book The Economy of Kent, 1640-1914 written by Alan Armstrong and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Kent's economic history confirm the industrial revolution to have been less cataclysmic and more widespread then formerly accepted.
Book Synopsis Archives of the British Chemical Industry, 1750-1914 by : Peter John Turnbull Morris
Download or read book Archives of the British Chemical Industry, 1750-1914 written by Peter John Turnbull Morris and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics by : K. L. Kosanke
Download or read book Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics written by K. L. Kosanke and published by Journal of Pyrotechnics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1/3 of the new Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics, which consists of more than 4000 entries (not counting cross-references), 1200 large format pages (8.5 x 11 inches), including 3000 photographs and illustrations. This is a major revision of the original Illustrated Dictionary of Pyrotechnics, originally published in 1995. In addition to many more entries, much more explanatory information has being included, with many of the entries now ranging from 1/2 to 1 (or even several) pages of text. This is a Black and White version that is fully searchable.
Book Synopsis On Her Their Lives Depend by : Angela Woollacott
Download or read book On Her Their Lives Depend written by Angela Woollacott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-05-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experience of women munitions workers in Britain during WW1.
Book Synopsis Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science by :
Download or read book Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
