Techniques of industrial archaeology

£18.00

Hard cover with soft jacket, 192pp., with b/w plates, diagrams, drawings and maps.

Industrial archaeology attracts increasing interest, and in some areas is becoming a race against time since modern developments are rapidly obliterating the visual evidence of centuries of evolution. This book gives practical guidance on the best methods of approach.

After a general introduction, there are chapters on background material, the form of written, printed and verbal sources; on maps, plans and pictures. Elementary surveying is explained and demonstrated by a detailed description of an actual survey on an industrial site. the art of measuring and drawing machines, plant and buildings is also treated in a practical way. So much of our industrial history has developed from improvements in the knowledge and working of materials that a chapter is devoted to this . Creative design, once the result of individual inventive genius, but now more often a team job, is followed from its early stages to recent times. The whole purpose of the industrial archaeologist’s work is to preserve for the future some accurate record of our rapidly disappearing relics of the industrial past, and a chapter is devoted to the means of doing this most effectively.

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