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A History of the County of Lancaster
… continue to flourish; there are also iron foundries, machinery is made, and the manufacture of chemicals and soap …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… riots in 1812, 1826 and 1842, caused by opposition to machinery, &c.; Newbigging, Rossendale, 239, 250. This was a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there have also grown up extensive works for supplying the machinery used in those factories, and some minor industries. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Wall Paper Manufacturers, Limited. Cotton-spinning by machinery was first introduced here about the year 1820, by …
Old and New London
… of Exeter 'Change; here also the first exhibitions of machinery were held, and the public records were for a long …
A History of the County of York
… that they had 'spent huge sums of money on buildings and machinery which [would otherwise] have been invested …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… great demand, and much used in making lighter articles of machinery; and the whole of the iron manufactured here is purchased by the makers of machinery at Liverpool and Manchester. About 650 men are …
Survey of London
… of Fenchurch Street, patented a composition and machinery for making floorcloth. Oil-cloth used as a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 90 The derelict waterworks, buildings of c. 1800, and machinery remained in 1990. Field names indicate …
A History of the County of Stafford
… part of Tunstall manor. 406 By the early 19th century the machinery of parochial and manorial government was inadequate … who in 1757 employed James Brindley to fit the mill with machinery for grinding flint and also pumping water out of a … had a flint mill at Greenfield in which steam-driven machinery was installed in 1806, causing much local interest; …