Dangerous energy : the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture
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Dangerous energy : the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture
English Heritage, 2000
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Summaries in French and German
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-306) and index
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Description
This book comprises a national study of the explosives industry and provides a framework for identification of its industrial archaeology and social history.
Few monuments of gunpowder manufacture survive in Britain from the Middle Ages, although its existence is documented. Late 17th-century water-powered works are identifiable but sparse. In the later 18th century, however, the industry was transformed by state acquisition of key factories, notably at Faversham and at Waltham Abbey.In the mid-19th century developments in Britain paralleled those in continental Europe and in America, namely a shift to production on an industrial scale related to advances in armaments technology.
The urgency and large-scale demands of the two world wars brought state-directed or state-led solutions to explosives production in the 20th century. Yhe book's concluding section looks at planning, preservation, conservation and presentation in relation to prospective future uses of these sites.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Summary
Resume
Zusammenfassung
Introduction
1. 'Success to the Black Art'
2. The royal factories 1759-1850
3. Gunpowder manufacture in the second half of the nineteenth century
4. The demise of gunpowder
5. The development of the chemical explosives industry, c 1850-1914
6. The Great War 1914-18
7. Rearmament and the Second World War
8. The archaeology of rocketry
9. Survival and reuse
Gazetteer
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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