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Industrial archaeology concerns itself with the physical remains of the Industrial Revolution. It is born out of the need to record and preserve the remains of industrialisation before they disappear. It is a part of landscape study and includes cultural aspects also. The term may have been coined in the 1950s in Manchester.- Aqueduct
- Boat lift
- Beam engine
- Brick kiln
- Boring mill
- Bridge
- Canal, Aqueduct, Barge, Boat lift, Flights of locks , Inclined plane, Narrowboat
- Canal lock
- Charcoal
- Chimney
- Clayworks
- Coal mine
- Cotton mill
- Dam, ReservoirA reservoir ( French: reservoir is an artificial lake created by flooding land behind a dam. Some of the world's largest lakes are reservoirs. Surveyors have to find river valleys which are deep and narrow; the valley sides can then act as natural walls.
- DockDock can refer to several things: Places for the transfer of people and materials to, from, or between different forms of transport or working with transport: A maritime dock. Loading dock, the land equivalent. A dry dock. In American English dock is tech
- EngineAn engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. The origin of engineering was the working of engines. There is an overlap in English between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and co, Beam engine , Internal combustion engineAn internal combustion engine is an engine that is powered by the expansion of hot combustion products of fuel directly acting within an engine. A piston internal combustion engine works by burning hydrocarbon or hydrogen fuel that presses on a piston; an, Mill engine , Steam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. Steam engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and were essential to the Industrial Revolution
- FactoryA factory (previously manufactory is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. Most factories are large warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. History of the factory The world'
- Five-sail windmill
- Flax mill
- Flight of locks
- Flint mill
- Flying shuttleThe flying shuttle was developed by John Kay in 1733, and was one of the key developments in weaving that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. When weaving on a loom, the shuttle carries the yarn that forms the weft through the fibres of the warp. When
- Fulling mill
- Furnace
- Horse tram
- Inclined plane
- Internal combustion engine
- Kiln
- Lighthouse
- Locomotive
- Luddites
- Mill, Boring mill , Cotton mill, Flax mill , Fulling mill , Hand mill , Iron mill , Lumber mill, Oil mill , Post mill, Rolling mill , Saw mill, Smock mill , Spinning mill , Steel rolling mill , Textile mill , Tide mill , Tower mill , Watermill, Windmill, Woollen mill ,
- Mill engine
- Mill stone
- Mine, Coal mine, Gold mine , Tin mine
- Railway
- Reservoir, Dam
- Spinning, Spinning jenny, Spinning mill , Spinning mule
- Steam engine
- Tin mine
- Train
- Tram
- Tunnel
- Warehouse
- Water (resource), Watermill, Waterwheel
- Windmill, Windpump, Five-sail windmill
- Woollen mill
See also: List of Conservation topics, Conservation in the United Kingdom, Industrial archaeology of Dartmoor, History of Science and Technology, Association for Industrial Archaeology
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