This new volume, issued in memory of Tom Rolt, the pioneering conservationist and engineering historian, comprises nine essays by Rolt Fellows and members of the History of Technology Seminar at the University of Bath. The volume covers a wide range of subjects, all of interest to historians of technology. Areas to be covered include -
Industrial World Heritage Sites
The Birth of British Gunpowder Engineering Overseas
The Lost Distilleries of Bristol and Bath, 1775-1815
Managing a West Indian Sugar Estate
James Nasmyth: Engineering Astronomer
Engineering Education in the Age of Microelectronics
Testing Times: Aerospace and Historic Engines
The New Great Space Race
Working Historic Machinery can it be safe?
This informative new title is lavishly illustrated with various mono and colour illustrations and will appeal to both historians and those interetsted in technology.