Portsmouth Block Mills - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Portsmouth Block Mills: Encyclopedia Ii - Portsmouth Block Mills - History
The Royal Navy had evolved by the middle of the eighteenth century into what has been described as the greatest industrial power in the w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Encyclopedia Ii - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - The Thames Tunnel
The son of noted engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Brunel née Kingdom, Isambard K. Brunel was born in Portsmouth, England on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Technology - By Period And Geography
History of technology - Early technology. Fire used since the paleolithic, possibly by homo erectus as early as 800,000 years ago Clot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Production: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Production - Benefits
The economies of mass production come from several sources. The primary cause is a reduction of nonproductive effort of all types. In cra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Causes
The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complex and remain a topic for debate, with some historians seeing the Revolution as an outg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Encyclopedia Ii - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - The Great Western Railway
In the meantime, Brunel moved on. In 1833 he was appointed engineer of the Great Western Railway, one of the wonders of Victorian Britain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Production: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Production - History
While Ford was first to introduce mass production in recent times, the idea was first developed in Venice several hundred years earlier, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Encyclopedia Ii - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Transatlantic Shipping
Even before the Great Western Railway was opened, Brunel was moving on to his next project — transatlantic shipping. He used his presti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - The Second Industrial Revolution
The insatiable demand of the railroads for more durable rail led to the development of the means to cheaply mass-produce steel. Steel is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Encyclopedia Ii - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Illnesses And Death Of Brunel
In 1843, while performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children, he accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin which became...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Production: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Production - Assembly Lines
Mass production systems are usually organized in assembly lines. The assemblies pass by on a conveyor, or if they are heavy, hung from an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Encyclopedia Ii - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Commemorating Brunel
A major programme of events celebrating the life and work of Brunel is planned for the bicentenary of his birth under the name Brunel 200...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Production: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Production - Vertical Integration
A final very important strategy is vertical integration. In this strategy, the manufacturer produces all or most of the parts and subasse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Criticism
Industrial Revolution - Marxism. See main article Marxism Karl Marx saw the industrialization process as the logical dialectical progre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Factories
Industrialisation also led to the creation of the factory. John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby was operational by 1721. In 1746...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Intellectual Paradigms
Industrial Revolution - Capitalist. The advent of The Enlightenment provided an intellectual framework which welcomed the practical app...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Innovations
The invention of the steam engine was the most important innovation of the industrial revolution. This was made possible by earlier impro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Technology - By Type Of Technology
History of technology - History of biotechnology. Main article: History of biotechnology To be incorporated into main article: Timelin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Technology - Measuring Technological Progress
Many sociologists and anthropologists have created social theories dealing with social and cultural evolution. Some, like Lewis H. Morgan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Textile Manufacture
In the early 18th century, British textile manufacture was based on wool which was processed by individual artisans, doing the spinning a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Machine Tools
The Industrial Revolution could not have developed without machine tools, for they enabled manufacturing machines to be made. They have t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Metallurgy
In the early 18th century, small-scale iron working and extraction and processing of other metals were carried out where local resources ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Social Problems
The industrial revolution led to a number of social problems within the newly developed working class. Children worked under miserable co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Effects
The application of steam power to the industrial processes of printing supported a massive expansion of newspaper and popular book publis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Transportation
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastwise vessels employed to mov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Industrial Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Industrial Revolution - Steam Power
The stationary steam engine had great influence on the progress of the Industrial Revolution, but for the period of the Industrial Revolu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portsmouth Block Mills: Encyclopedia Ii - Portsmouth Block Mills - On Line Links
For an on-line inter-active presentation showing how blocks were made at Portsmouth see the website of the National Museum of Science and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portsmouth Block Mills: Encyclopedia Ii - Portsmouth Block Mills - Publicity
These machines and the block mills attracted an enormous amount of interest from the time of their erection, ranging from Admiral Lord Ne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portsmouth Block Mills: Encyclopedia Ii - Portsmouth Block Mills - The Block-making Processes Using The Machines
A pulley-block has four parts: the shell, the sheave, the pin for locating the latter in the shell and a metal bush, or coak, inserted in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portsmouth Block Mills: Encyclopedia Ii - Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture Of The Block-making Machines
Brunel's patent specification shows wooden framed machines, which, while they show many of the principles of the machines actually instal...   » Read the article