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The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands - Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History (Hardcover)
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The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands - Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History (Hardcover)
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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the
ground-breaking historic industrial complex created to the west of
Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew
Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch. The Soho Manufactory
(1761-1863) and Soho Mint (1788-1850s) were both situated in the
historic parish of Handsworth, now in the city of Birmingham, and
the Soho Foundry (1795-1895) lay in the historic township of
Smethwick, now within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. Together they
played a key role in the Industrial Revolution , achieving many
world 'firsts': the first working Watt steam engine, the first
steam-engine powered mint and the first purpose-built steam engine
manufactory (the Soho Foundry), to name but a few. Existing
literature focuses largely on the biography of the people,
primarily Boulton and Watt, or the products they manufactured. The
place - the Soho complex - has attracted very little attention.
This volume is the first to concentrate on the buildings themselves
analysing not only their physical origins, development and eventual
decline but also the water and steam power systems adopted. An
interdisciplinary approach has been employed combining archival
research in the magnificent Soho collection at the Library of
Birmingham with the results of archaeological excavations. The
volume is profusely illustrated with archival material, most
published for the first time, and contains a large number of
reconstruction plans and drawings by the author.
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