The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Tr 3 0 a J ir Oe INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS 533 large towns could be most easily solved by giving new 4D, 1563 facilities for internal traffic; he urged that the rivers might ’ be utilised for the conveyance of corn. He suggested that for great granaries should be built by the London Companies som?" near Oxford, and that the navigation of the Cherwell and Thames might be improved so as to render the conveyance of corn from them very easy’. He would have erected similar granaries at Stratford-on-Avon?, from which the towns in the Severn valley might be supplied. There were also attempts to utilise the Wye in a similar fashion? as well as to connect the Severn and the Thames by a canal at Lechlade. Charles IL, who had seen many things on his travels, was much interested in these schemes, as well as in the proposal to render the Medway navigable, with the view of conveying the timber of the Wealds of Kent and Sussex for the use of the Royal Navy’. During the seventeenth ond the ner century, when the products of the surface of the land were coal gave the only goods for which internal transport was required, Ho these schemes seemed impracticable; but in the eighteenth of #rofit. the increasing traffic in coal promised to be remunerative, and capital was available in large quantities for attempting to carry out these costly undertakings. It was the Duke of Bridgewater who, by his enterprise, demonstrated to the English public the possibility of success. His first canal, from Worsley to Manchester, was only The Due eleven miles long, but it presented formidable engineering Ga difficulties. Tunnelling was necessary to get access to the Sanat rom pits at a convenient level®; and the promoters determined Porshy ta to attempt to construct an aqueduct over the River Irwell, with his This was very desirable for the sake of convenience in resources, working the canal; though it was generally regarded as an impossible feat; but Brindley’s skill in the choice and use of materials enabled him to solve the difficulty”. In 1761, 1 Yarranton, England's Improvement, 180. 2 Jb. 163. 8 Act for making navigable the Wye, passed June 26, 1651, not printed by 8cobell though mentioned by him. ¢ Phillips, Inland Navigation, 210. ® On the difficulties of conveying timber, see Defoe, Tour (1724), Vol. 1. Letter m. p. 59. The project of 16 and 17 C. IL c. 11 (private) as revived by 13 Geo. II. c. 26 is described in the edition of 1748, 1. 204. 8 Smiles, Lives of Engineers, I. 357. 7 Ib. I. 353.

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