The Portsmouth Block Mills: Bentham, Brunel and the start of the Royal Navy's Industrial Revolution

by Jonathan Coad

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The Block Mills in Portsmouth Naval Base have long been known to students of naval and industrial history. Within this group of buildings a remarkable set of machine tools designed by Marc Brunel to manufacture ships' blocks laid the foundations for the subsequent world-wide development of industrial production-lines that used ever more sophisticated machinery to replace the work of individual craftsmen. In a very real sense, the modern world of factory mass-production using machine tools had its origins in this Georgian buiding overlooking the heart of the dockyard. The importance of the pioneering work in the Block Mills was...Read more
  • ISBN10 1873592876
  • ISBN13 9781873592878
  • Publish Date 30 September 2005
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 24 September 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Historic England
  • Imprint Royal Commission on Historical Monuments