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Description: | Small amounts of material relating to the locally important Chemical Industry, Papermaking and Printing Industry and also Coalmining and Quarrying. Another small collection of items from the engineering industry includes 37 stationary steam engine models e.g. an 1840 model by Benjamin Hick and a full size mill engine of 1903 by J & E Woods of Bolton. There are also ancillary tools, equipment, instruments and products.
There are more representative collections from the Brick, Tile Making and Sanitary Ware industries. A collection of 330 Scientific, Calculating and Testing Instruments includes comprehensive collections of local coalmine surveying instruments and textile testing instruments.
Iron & Lead Industry Collections include a comprehensive range of tools, clothing and iron samples from the last iron works in the world to manufacture wrought iron by the puddling process, T Walmsley's Atlas Forge that closed in 1981.
Trades such as leather, carpentry, clogging and basket making are also represented in addition to trade unions and the service industries. Early cotton textile machinery includes Crompton's Mule, Arkwright's Water Frame and Hargreaves Spinning Jenny and there are also textile samples, pattern books, dye & printing recipe books dating from the 19th and 20th century. | Subjects: | Science & Industry | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1204 332 241 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1204 332 211 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2140 | Go to resource |
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