Portsmouth Block Mills

Portsmouth Block Mills
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Le Portsmouth Block Mills est une fabrique de poulies faisant partie des Portsmouth Dockyard à Portsmouth, Hampshire, Angleterre, et son construit pendant les guerres napoléoniennes afin de fournir la Royal Navy en poulies. Elle marque le début de la production de masse utilisant des machines exclusivement en métal et est considéré comme un des premiers bâtiments de la Révolution industrielle en Angleterre. Le site abrite également les premières machines à vapeurs utilisés par l'Admiralty.

Depuis 2003, l'English Heritage a entrepris une étude détaillée sur les bâtiments et les archives relatifs aux machines.

Références

Bibliographie

  • Gilbert, K. R. The Portsmouth Block-making Machinery, London, 1965
  • Cooper, C. C. 'The Production Line at Portsmouth Block Mill', in Industrial Archaeology Review VI, 1982, 28-44
  • Cooper, C. C. 'The Portsmouth System of Manufacture', Technology and Culture, 25, 1984, 182-225
  • Coad, Jonathan, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850, Aldershot, 1989
  • Coad, Jonathan, The Portsmouth Block Mills : Bentham, Brunel and the start of the Royal Navy's Industrial Revolution, 2005,ISBN 1-873592-87-6
  • Wilkin, Susan, The application of emerging new technologies by Portsmouth Dockyard, 1790-1815, The Open University PhD Thesis, 1999. (Copies available from the British Thesis service of the British Library)
  • Cantrell, J. and Cookson, G. eds. Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age, Stroud, 2002

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