Essays Tagged: "James Brindley"

Canals.

ster which was nearly six miles away. The Duke gave the task of designing and building the canal to James Brindley - an engineer who at this time had never built a canal before. As such, the Duke was ...

(3 pages) 21 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Industrial Revolution

as passed by Parliament giving the Duke of Bridgewater the permission to dig an 11-kilometre canal. James Brindley (see Appendix 1, picture 9) was the engineer in charge of designing the canal. As a c ... time was more effectively used (Aylett, 1985). Consequently, in 1764 a new machine was designed by James Hargreaves; spinning Jenny (see Appendix 1, picture 14) was called. Despite the fact that this ...

(8 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jul/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers