Industry & technology (215 pages found in this category)


C. F. Varley

Pioneering English telegraph engineer and electrician, and an investigator into spiritualism.

Caleb Wright

Factory owner and Liberal Member of Parliament, was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire.

Cambro

Three-wheeled, single-seat cyclecar made in 1920–1921 by the Central Aircraft Company of Northolt, Middlesex. It was one of the cheapest cars on the market.

Cannel

Type of bituminous coal.

Caphouse Colliery

Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Careening

Method of exposing the hull of a ship for cleaning or repair by laying it on its side.

Chaddock Pit

Pit sunk in about 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal.

Chanters Colliery

Former colliery in Hindsford, Atherton where coal was mined from 1854 until 1966.

Chapman

An itinerant peddler or hawker.

Cistercian ware

Type of earthenware pottery manufactured in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.