The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost
Sunderland: Building a City traces the physical development of the city of Sunderland, from the earliest settlement patterns into the new millennium. The story is an intricate one, showing how Sunderl
The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid ?the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. It tells of the dramatic attempts to cross the Atlan-tic dur
Famed across Europe during Bede's time and the heyday of Wearmouth monastery, Sunderland found a less celebrated renown in the twentieth century with the distress of its heavy industries between the w
The biography of Jenkin, who was professor of engineering at the U. of Edinburgh from 1868 until his death and the business partner of Lord Kelvin. The authors look at his achievements in his field an
