British Manufacturing Industries: Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and
Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
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English Originals Industrial Technology Manufacturing SurveyIndustrial HeritageCraftsmanshipTechnical RecordMaterials ProcessingProduction ProcessIndustrial EnglandObject AestheticsCraft TraditionVictorian EraSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.British Manufacturing Industries: Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture andAuthor: Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902,Language: English, Class: TS: Technology: Manufactures, Release Date: Feb 24, 2012Editor's review
This book is one volume of John Hungerford Pollen's British Manufacturing Industries, focusing on pottery, glass and silicate products, as well as furniture and related crafts and manufactures. As a mid-to-late nineteenth-century observation of British industry, its value lies not in literary quality but in its presentation of the craft categories, product forms and modes of production organization of British manufacturing at the time, bearing a distinct character of period record. Project Gutenberg has digitized it, making this material freely available, suitable for readers interested in industrial history, design history and the decorative arts to consult as primary material. It should be read as a historical source rather than popular reading: the terminology and units of measurement carry the marks of their era, and some craft descriptions require background knowledge to understand. Readers are advised to consult relevant chapters with specific questions in mind, such as the production process or industrial distribution of a particular type of ware, rather than reading from cover to cover. For researchers, it is a convenient source of supplementary firsthand descriptions; for general readers, it can serve as an introductory window into the landscape of traditional British manufacturing.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in British industrial history and the development of manufacturing
- Those studying traditional crafts such as pottery, glass and furniture, and the history of design
- Researchers needing nineteenth-century primary descriptive material on British industry
- Self-learners who enjoy browsing historical sources and can accept old-fashioned expository prose
Not a good fit for
- General readers expecting popular storytelling or light reading
- Readers needing systematic theoretical analysis or contemporary industrial data
- Those impatient with old-fashioned terminology and units of measurement
Reading tips
- First look at the table of contents to locate categories of interest such as pottery, glass and furniture, then consult by chapter.
- Keep pen and paper to note old-fashioned terminology and units of measurement, consulting background material as needed.
- Use it as historical source material, making excerpts and comparisons around specific craft or industrial questions.
- For design history research, read the descriptions alongside period object images and museum collections.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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FAQ
What is this book about?
It is one volume of British Manufacturing Industries, covering the production and craft of pottery, glass and silicates, and furniture, and is a record of observation of nineteenth-century British manufacturing.Is this book suitable for reading straight through?
Not really. It is a reference-heavy expository text organized by category, better consulted by chapter according to interest or research question than read from cover to cover.What difficulties will readers encounter?
The book uses old-fashioned terminology and units of measurement, its expository style is dry, and it lacks modern annotation; readers unfamiliar with nineteenth-century British industrial background may need supplementary material.What research value does it have?
It provides primary descriptions of traditional British manufacturing at the time and can serve as background reference for industrial history, craft history and design history, but should be used alongside other academic material.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 AuthorJohn Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was a British author known for his writings on the decorative arts and industrial manufacturing. Two of his works are held in this collection: Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork and British Manufacturing Industries: Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and so on, showing that his interests centred on the history and making of practical crafts such as furniture, woodwork, ceramics and glass. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life, education and professional posts cannot be confirmed, so the present introduction rests on his works alone. Judging from their titles and subjects, he tended to examine traditional craftsmanship alongside the industrial production of his day, writing with an emphasis on materials, techniques and objects rather than general commentary. Such works offer concrete reference for understanding nineteenth-century British decorative art and manufacturing, and are still consulted by researchers and enthusiasts in related fields.