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THE HANCOCKS OF MARLBOROUGH
RUBBER, ART AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - A FAMILY OF INVENTIVE GENIUS |
| By: |
John Loadman, Francis James |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£36.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199573557 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199573554 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 September, 2009 |
| Pages: |
298 |
| Description: |
This book tells the largely unknown history of the Hancock family of Marlborough. It shows how members of one unique family were responsible for creating the earliest form of mechanized transport in the world, the foundation of the UK rubber industry, and the beginnings of the global information highway. |
| Synopsis: |
This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art. Walter designed and ran the first steam carriages to carry passengers on the common roads of England and so began the age of mechanized transport. Thomas founded the UK rubber industry when he discovered how to vulcanize rubber reliably; his company survived for some 120 years before being taken over. Charles was a well established painter who was also instrumental in the manufacture of gutta percha-coated undersea cables, used by the electric telegraph to begin the global information highway. Other brothers, John, James and William all made significant contributions to the development of Victorian science and culture.This book tells the story of the family and the remarkable people in it, from the Great Fire of Marlborough in 1653 to the present day, using the Hancock family archive of many unpublished and previously unknown documents. |
| Illustrations: |
112 b/w halftone illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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