Industry & technology (215 pages found in this category)


Shuttle Eye Colliery

Colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield at Grange Moor in West Yorkshire, between Wakefield and Huddersfield on the A642 road.

Sir Alexander MacRobert

Self-made millionaire from Aberdeen

Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet

British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond.

Small-Scale Experimental machine

World’s first electronic stored-program computer.

South Lancashire Tramways

System of electric trams authorised by the South Lancashire Tramways Act of 1900. The South Lancashire Tramways Company built more than 62 miles (100 km) of track to serve the towns in south Lancashire between St Helens, Swinton, Westhoughton and Hulton Lane where it met the Bolton Corporation system.

South Wheal Frances

Copper and tin mine to the south of Camborne in Cornwall, named after the mineral lord, Lady Frances Basset

St George’s Colliery

St George's Colliery, known locally as Back o't' Church, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield that was sunk in 1866 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.

Standedge crossings

Standedge has been a major Pennine crossing point for more than 2,000 years.

Starvationer

Redirected to Mine boat.

Stimson Mini Bug

Mini-based beach buggy-styled motor vehicle designed by Barry Stimson.