Author: M. C. Corfield
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Pamela M. Slocombe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956025104
Category : Industrial archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Walter E. Minchinton
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: C. A. Buchanan
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Keith Falconer
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Mary A. Vance
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300096590
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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From prehistoric Stonehenge and Avebury to railway age Swindon, the rolling countryside of Wiltshire encompasses every aspect of English building. Thirteenth-century Salisbury cathedral is set in a spacious close, within a planned medieval town, which boasts Georgian delights such as Mompesson House. Towns and villages range from Marlborough with its sweeping High Street to the exceptional Lacock, in the shadow of its abbey's remains, remodelled as an eighteenth-century Gothick fantasy. The great country houses include some of the finest in England: Palladian Wilton, with which Inigo Jones was involved, Stourhead set in its evocative classical landscape, the elegant eithteenth-century Bowood and the mellow Bath stone of Corsham Court.

Author:
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Category : Industrial archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Richard Leslie Hills
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521566865
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The wind is a fickle source of power. Windspeeds are frequently too low to be of any practical use, so that windpower has generally remained a marginal resource. Since the inception of windpower around 1000 AD, technology has been deployed to obtain the most economical power from wind. The author traces its technical evolution, concentrating on the growth in understanding of wind and charting crucial developments in windmill design. The history of the windmill is focused on North Western Europe, drawing on the origins of the first horizontal windmills in Persia, Tibet and China. Industrial applications such as in textiles, papermaking and mining are examined. Gradually, windmills were improved but were finally eclipsed by steam engines in the nineteenth century due to increased levels of industrialisation. The book concludes with a look at the recent re-emergence of windpower as a viable source of power in the wake of the energy crisis.

Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032

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