Rolt remains a significant figure in post-war British conservation, especially that related to inland waterways and railways, and (after 1954) related to
industrial archaeology and museums.
Gould, who recreated the Mason Bogie locomotive in SolidWorks, also uses that program for much of his
industrial archaeology work.
With a grant from the Society for
Industrial Archaeology and support from several donors and trustees, the staff is working with an industrial historian to answer just how water from the adjacent mill brook was diverted into the basement undershot water wheel, whose kinetic power then was transmitted via overhead shafts and pulleys.
The contributors, who are historians of technology, primarily from the Institute for the History of Technology and
Industrial Archaeology, discuss the history of the Patent Office and the way bridge patents helped shape modern bridge engineering.
Industrial archaeology is new to Mumbai, and conservationists are looking to the example of Manchester and Liverpool to encourage re-use rather than demolition.
SPECIAL BREW:
INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE KLONDIKE BREWERY.
The book features short biographies of 81 inventors and innovators, looks at 19th century technology and examines the popular field of
industrial archaeology. For more information visit www.techdirections.com/html/tdbooks.html.
TIME OUT: "My photographic interests interact with my interests in
industrial archaeology and the two support my engineering activities in the structural refurbishment of old, often listed, buildings, which can be absorbing work."
While not as useful a study of colonial labour history as it might have been, this work is, nonetheless, a significant contribution to historical
industrial archaeology.
This is, without question, the most ambitious study of American
industrial archaeology in print and the most sophisticated ever produced in any country.
McCutcheon, The
Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland (Rutherford, NJ, 1984), p.