Stories
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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Celebrating our soft toys
After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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A treatise on mills, in four parts. Part First, on Circular Motion. Part Second, on the Maximum of Moving Bodies, Machines, Engines, &c. Part Third, on the Velocity of Effluent Water. Part Fourth, Experiments on Circular Motion, Water-Wheels, &c. By John Banks, Lecturer in Experimental Philosophy.
Banks, John, active 1795-1803.Date: 1795
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Mechanics: mills using water-power in various ways. Coloured engraving, 1816, by J. Pass.
Date: 1816Reference: 45433i- Ephemera
Bromo toilet paper / Diamond Mills Paper Company.
Diamond Mills Paper Co.Date: [1878?]- Books
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An essay on the comparative advantages of vertical and horizontal wind-mills: containing A description of an horizontal Wind-Mill and Water-Mill, upon a new construction; and explaining the manner of applying the same principle to pumps, sluices, methods for moving boats or vessels, &c. &c. With Plates. By Robert Beatson, Esq. F.R.S.E. Honorary Member of the Board of Agriculture, Member of the Society of London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and of the Royal Highland Society of Scotland, and late of his Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers.
Beatson, Robert, 1742-1818.Date: 1798
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The Bristol & Hotwell guide : containing an account of the ancient and present state of that opulent city, nature, and effect of the medicinal water of the Hotwells, botanical plants and beautiful views of Clifton, a concise description of villages and seats in the vicinity, with brief biography of eminent natives of Bristol, including memoirs of Chatterton : to which are added an explanation of the improvement of the harbour ... embellished with a 'plan of the city, &c.' and other engravings / originally written by the late E. Shiercliff ; revised to the present time.
Shiercliff, Edward, 1727-1798.Date: [1809]