The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution |
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aqueduct arches Avon beam Birmingham blast furnace Blists Hill boats boiler Boulton and Watt breweries bridge Brindley built carried cast cast-iron centre coal Coalbrookdale Coalport colliery condenser construction Cromford cylinder David and Charles designed diameter Drinkstone early eighteenth century electric example factory flash lock floor ft long gate gear Holyhead Holyhead road horse Industrial Archaeology installed James Brindley kiln Lanark Liverpool locks London Macclesfield machine machinery maltings masonry Menai miles south miles south-east mill Navigation Newcomen nineteenth century opened operated original piston pit-wheel Plate post-mill preserved pump rail railway remains retorts river rods sails Science Museum seen shaft Sheffield shows Shrewsbury Canal Shropshire span station steam engine steel stone supply survive Tavistock Canal Telford Thomas Telford timber town town gas tunnel turnpike typical viaducts walls warehouses water-wheel waterways Watt wheel William Jessop wind wooden wrought iron