Synopses & Reviews
Engineering is a creative 'art' often viewed in a purely scientific light, or as an industry producing mostly railway locomotives and engines for ships. This book sets our to dispel this limited image. It paints a broader picture of the multi-talented people who created steam engines to power factories and who provided other engineering solutions to industries as diverse as papermaking, printing, mining and quarrying, the sugar industry, as well as designing machinery for bakeries, confectioners and public houses, to name but a few. This is the story of the origins and growth of the 'traditional' Scottich Engineering Industry.
About the Author
James L. Wood worked in the aircraft industry and at the National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbrider, before becoming a museum curator, latterly at the National Museums of Scotland. He is the author so Shipbuilding and Building Railways in this series.