The Rendel Connection

Author : Michael R. Lane
Publisher : Quiller
ISBN 13 : 9781870948012
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rendel Connection written by Michael R. Lane and published by Quiller. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is The Story Of The Civil Engineering Consultancy Firm Rendel Palmer And Tritton Over Its First 150 Years; It Also Incorporates The First Biography Of Its Founder James Meadows Rendel. Condition Good.

Author : Kenneth Warren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349109940
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armstrongs of Elswick written by Kenneth Warren and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-12-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armstrong, the engineers, armament makers and naval shipbuilders was set up in 1847 by William Armstrong at Elswick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. This book analyzes Armstrong's 80 years rise, decline and reorganization, treating it, in some ways, as a case study of British industrial malaise.

Author : Henrietta Heald
Publisher : McNidder and Grace Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857160354
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Armstrong written by Henrietta Heald and published by McNidder and Grace Limited. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century – a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Armstrong's industrial powerhouse Elswick Works on the Tyne employed over 25,000 people in its heyday manufacturing hydraulic cranes, warships and armaments. He was a visionary who was loved, and hated, and feared in equal measure. While he brought great fame and fortune to his native Newcastle upon Tyne, and to his country as a whole, he was condemned in some quarters as 'a merchant of death' for his manufacturing of weapons of war. 'This intimate, authoritative portrait reveals as never before the extraordinary achievements of a multi-faceted Victorian giant.' David Kynaston 'An excellent book – hugely enjoyable.' Alexander Armstrong

Author : Paul Mulvey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0861933087
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood written by Paul Mulvey and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his day, "Josh" Wedgwood was one of Britain's best-known and most outspoken Radical politicians. He served in three wars, and, in a Parliamentary career lasting from 1906 to 1943, first with the Liberals, and then with Labour, he fought to uphold personal liberty and to limit the power of the state. Instead of the collectivism of socialists or social imperialists, Wedgwood advocated a Radical vision of Victorian Individualism as the solution to the problems of social inequality at home and growing threats abroad that Britain faced in the first half of the twentieth century. His support of individual freedom, a redistribution of landowner's wealth, and a voluntary and democratic British Empire received only limited support in his own lifetime, but he fought for them with vigour and passion throughout his career. This study of his life throws new light upon some of the defining ideological and policy issues of the most turbulent period of modern British history. Paul Mulvey teaches at the London School of Economics.

Author : Alessandro Falcetta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567684776
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter: A Biography of James Rendel Harris (1852–1941) written by Alessandro Falcetta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full biography of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941), Bible and patristic scholar, manuscript collector, Quaker theologian, devotional writer, traveller, folklorist, and relief worker. Drawing on published and unpublished sources gathered in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, many of which were previously unknown, Alessandro Falcetta tells the story of Harris's life and works set against the background of the cultural and political life of contemporary Britain. Falcetta traces the development of Harris's career from Cambridge to Birmingham, the story of his seven journeys to the Middle East, and of his many campaigns, from religious freedom to conscientious objection. The book focuses upon Harris's innovative contributions in the field of textual and literary criticism, his acquisitions of hundreds of manuscripts from the Middle East, his discoveries of early Christian works – in particular the Odes of Solomon – his Quaker beliefs and his studies in the cult of twins. His enormous output and extensive correspondence reveal an indefatigable genius in close contact with the most famous scholars of his time, from Hort to Harnack, Nestle, the 'Sisters of Sinai', and Frazer.

Author : Anthony Heywood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317143329
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineer of Revolutionary Russia written by Anthony Heywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career, it also explores the relationship between science, technology and transport that developed in late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. Lomonosov's importance extends well beyond his scientific and engineering achievements thanks to the rich variety and public prominence of his professional and political activities. His generation - Lenin's generation - was inevitably at the forefront of Russian life from the 1910s to the 1930s, and Lomonosov took his place there as one of the country's best known and ultimately notorious engineers. As well as an innovative engineer who campaigned to enhance the role of science, he played a major role in shaping and administering the Russian railways, and undertook several diplomatic and scientific missions to the West during the early years of the Revolution. Falling from political favour during an assignment in Germany (1923-1927), he achieved notoriety in Russia as a 'non-returner' by apparently declining to return home. Thereby escaping probable arrest and execution, he began a new life abroad (1927-1952) which included a research post at the California Institute of Technology in 1929-1930, collaborative projects with the famous physicist P.L. Kapitsa in Cambridge, a long-time association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, and work for the British War Office during the Second World War. From Marxist revolutionary to American academic, this study reveals Lomonosov's extraordinary life. Drawing on a wide variety of official Russian sources, as well as Lomonosov's own diaries and memoirs, a vivid portrait of his life is presented, offering a better understanding of how science, technology and politics interacted in early-twentieth-century Russia.

Author : E. Lisa Panayotidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113445824X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970 written by E. Lisa Panayotidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts. The contributors integrally advance knowledge about the university in history by exploring the intersections of the lived experiences of women students and professors, practices of co-education, and intellectual and academic cultures. They also raise important questions about the complementary and multidirectional flow and exchange of academic knowledge and information among gender groups across programmes, disciplines, and universities. Historical inquiry and interpretation serve as efficacious ways with which to understand contemporary events and discourses in higher education, and more broadly in community and society. This book will provide important historical contexts for current debates about the numerical dominance and significance of women in higher education, and the tensions embedded in the gendering of specific academic programs and disciplines, and university policies, missions, and mandates.

Author : Nikolaos Gonis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111355950
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rendel Harris Papyri written by Nikolaos Gonis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume continues the publication of The Rendel Harris Papyri (vol. I, 1936; vol. II, 1985), offering editions, with translations and interpretations, of eighty-one Greek papyri. Three are literary or subliterary, the others documentary. With a few exceptions, the texts included are from Oxyrhynchus. They range in date from the early fi rst to the late seventh/early eighth century, but the majority come from late antiquity, with about twenty of them dating from the fifth century.

Author : Casper Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323025
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914 written by Casper Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britain’s engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion.

Author : Mary Danvers Stocks
Publisher : London : P. Davies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Commonplace Book written by Mary Danvers Stocks and published by London : P. Davies. This book was released on 1970 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: