TECHNIQUES OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY Pannell, J.P.M.

Industrial archeology attracts increasing interest, and in some areas is becoming a race against time since modern developments are rapidly obliterating the visual evidence of centuries of evolution. This book gives practical guidance on the best methods of approach, which will be specially valuable to the large number of amateur enthusiasts now taking part in research projects or attending lecture courses. It should also help many people with a professional knowledge of certain aspects to increase their understanding of industrial archeology as a whole.

After a general introduction, there are chapters on background material, in the form of written, printed and verbal sources; on maps, plans and pictures. Elementary surveying is explained and demonstrated by a detailed description of an actual survey on an industrial history has developed from improvements in the knowledge and working of materials that a chapter is devoted to this. Creative design, once the result of individual inventive genius, but now more often a team job, is followed from its early stages to recent times. The whole purpose of the industrial archaeologist's work is to preserve for the future some accurate record of our rapidly disappearing relics of the industrial past, and a chapter is devoted to the means of doing this most effectively.

There is a bibliography, a glossary and an index. Fully illustrated in line and half-tone. 

Ref. 3579
Autor: Pannell, J.P.M.
Idioma: English
Editorial: David & Charles (Devon)
1966
15,50x21,50 cm.
191 páginas. Tapas duras en tela editorial con sobrecubierta. Firma. Buen estado.

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