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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Annie Tindley
This book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century. In this period, Britain had developed from the world’s first industrial nation into the ‘Workshop of the World’ but how were technological innovations translated and communicated across the imperial territories? How were designs turned into reality? This book explores these themes, incorporating archival case study technologies such as trains, sugar manufacture and agricultural technologies. Using a four-part framework we firstly examine the identification of innovation opportunities and how these translated to engineering specifications. The realization of conceptual designs through collaboration and their subsequent manufacture and distribution as finished products are then reviewed. Using the authors’ expertise in the fields of historical and design engineering, this study contributes real-world case studies to design theory.
Author(s): Tindley A, Wodehouse A
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Year: 2016
Number of Pages: 131
Print publication date: 12/12/2016
Online publication date: 12/12/2016
Acceptance date: 08/09/2016
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Place Published: London
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781137597977
