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6 X 10 Long Title.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-15382-9 - Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 Christine MacLeod Index More information Index Acade´mie des Sciences 80, 122, 357 arms manufacturers 236–9 Adam, Robert 346 Armstrong, William, Baron Armstrong of Adams, John Couch 369 Cragside Aikin, John 43, 44, 71 arms manufacturer 220 Airy, Sir George 188, 360 as hero of industry 332 Albert, Prince 24, 216, 217, 231, 232, 260 concepts of invention 268, 269, 270 Alfred, King 24 entrepreneurial abilities of 328 Amalgamated Society of Engineers, knighted 237–8 Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths and monument to 237 Pattern Makers 286–7 opposition to patent system 250, 267–8 ancestor worship, see idolatry portrait of 230 Anderson’s Institution, Glasgow 113, 114, president of BAAS 355 288, 289 Punch’s ‘Lord Bomb’ 224–5 Arago, Franc¸ois 122, 148, 184 Ashton, T. S. 143 Eloge, to James Watt 122–3, 127 Athenaeum, The 99–101, 369 Arkwright, Sir Richard, Atkinson, T. L. 201 and scientific training 359 Atlantic telegraph cables 243, 245, 327 as national benefactor 282 Arthur, King 15 as workers’ hero 286 Askrill, Robert 213 commemorations of, 259 Associated Society of Locomotive Cromford mills, painting of 63 Engineers and Firemen 288 enterprise of 196, 327, 329 era of 144 Babbage, Charles 276, 353, 356–7, factory system 179 375, 383 in Erasmus Darwin’s poetry 67–8 Bacon, Sir Francis in Maria Edgeworth’s book 171 as discoverer 196 in Samuel Smiles’ books 255, 256 as genius 51, 53, 142 invention of textile machinery 174, 176 bust of 349 knighthood 65 n. 26, 171 Instauratio magna, frontispiece of 89 machinery, destruction of, 41 invention obituary of 191 method of 29, 58 patents 38, 304 models of 27, 29–30, 48, 51, 105 portrait bust of 230 law officer 30 portraits of, 75, 195, 196 monopoly controversy, implication in 33 reputation 40, 65, 69, 70, 71, 174, 189, New Atlantis 27, 29–30, 37 193–8, 222 New Atlantis, continuation of (1660) statue to, proposed 117, 118 31–2 support in Scotland 194–5 reform of philosophy 28–30 Arkwright, Richard 106, 157 reputation 217 ‘Arkwrightiad’ 197 secrecy 30 Armitage, Edward 223 statues to inventors 30 Armourers’ Company 242 useful knowledge 28–30, 138–9 440 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-15382-9 - Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 Christine MacLeod Index More information Index 441 Baily, Edward 203, 318 block-making machinery, Portsmouth Baily, Francis 228 dockyard 73, 200, 228 Bain, Alexander 148, 276 Bloomfield, Robert 87 case study of James Watt 150–1 Bloye, William 385 Senses and the intellect, The 150–2 Boddington, Samuel 116 n. 107 Baines, Edward 136, 181, 197 Bodmer, J. G. 260 Baird, John Logie 383 Boehm, J. E. 333, 335 Baker, Sir Benjamin 245, 326, 327 Bolcklow, H. W. F., MP 337 Bakewell, Frederick Collier 357–8 Bolton (Lancs.) 297–304, 384–5 Great facts 255 Bolton Chronicle 299, 300 Balfour, Arthur James, 1st earl of Balfour 367 Bolton Guardian 303 balloons, hot-air and hydrogen, 61–3 Booth, Charles 352, 381 Balloon Society of Great Britain 339 Booth, Henry 203 n. 103 Banks, Sir Joseph 227, 228, 356 Boulton, Matthew Barker, Thomas Jones as national benefactor 65 Intellect and Valour of Great Britain, biographical notices 71, 72 The 229–30 in Erasmus Darwin’s poetry 66 Baron, John 88 mastery of public relations 380 Baxter Brothers, of Dundee 348 partnership with James Watt 38, 40, Beckmann, John 115, 179 History of inventions 128 portrait of 225 Bell, Alexander Graham 383 statue of 385 Bell, Henry Boulton, Matthew Robinson 99, 102, 106 and Glasgow 344 Boulton, Miss Anne 106 as ‘projector’ 40 Boulton and Watt 179, 256, 328 as workers’ hero 286 Boulton and Watt v. Hornblower and biography of 220 Maberly 50 Comet 261, 341–2 Boulton, Watt & Co. (later James Watt & greatness of 342, 357 Co.) 102, 106, 107, 350 monuments to 188 workers’ subscription to Watt monument subscription for 187–8 106, 288 Bell, Reverend Patrick 261 Bourne, John 281 Bentham, Jeremy 125 n. 2, 266 Treatise on the steam engine 148–50 Bentham, Samuel 73, 74, 225, 228 Bradford (W. Yorks.) Beringer, J. J. 344 Cartwright Hall 330 Bernal, John Desmond 393 statue to Sir Titus Salt 336 Berners-Lee, Sir Tim 383 wool-combers’ song 42 Bessemer, Sir Henry 240–3, 257 n. 45, 264, wool-combers’ strike 42 274 Wool Exchange 14, 230 Bessemer, USA 242 worsted industry 330 Bidder, G. P. 209 Bramah, Joseph 46 n. 84, 50–1, 227, 257, Biographia Britannica 16 328 biographical dictionaries 71–2 Bramwell, Sir Frederick 264, 282 Birkenhead 337 Brande, W. T. 101 Birley, H. H. 117 Breda, Carl Fredrik von 75 Birmingham 106–7, 119, 385–6 Brewster, Sir David Museum and Art Gallery 14 and ‘decline of science’ 356, 357 Soho House 386 as Scottish hero 346 University of 349, 365 campaigns for reform of patent system Birmingham Canal Company 106 181, 183, 186, 357 Biro, Lazlo 6 fame of 74 Black, John 125 n. 2 Inventors’ Institute, member of 264 Black, Joseph 128, 196, 357 kaleidoscope 74, 357 Blackner, John 163 on inventors 375 History of Nottingham 163 on James Watt 123 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-15382-9 - Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 Christine MacLeod Index More information 442 Index Brewster, Sir David (cont.) celebrity of 199–200 portrait of 229 donation for Henry Bell 187 Brickhill, Paul portraits of 78, 225, 228 Dam busters, The 391 reputation 211, 383 Bridgewater, duke of 65, 117, 118, 179 Brunelleschi, Filippo 31 Briggs, Asa Buchanan, Archibald 288 Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace 10 Buckle, Henry Thomas 128–9 Bright, John 216, 219 Bud, Robert 392 Brightwell, Lucy 292 Builder, The 221, 232, 305, Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop 309, 310 254–5 Bullough, James 159 Brindley, James Bunyan, John biographical notices for 71–2, 174 Pilgrim’s Progress 160–1 fame of 65, 181, 195 Burke, Peter 6 indispensability of 273 Burnard, N. N. 323 in Erasmus Darwin’s poetry 66–7 Burns, Archibald 289 monuments to, proposed 66 n. 29, 118 Burrow, John 139 portrait 80 Butler, James 387, 388 statues to 387 Bristol 386 Camborne (Cornwall) 344–5, 385 British Association for the Advancement of Camborne School of Mines 344 Science 214, 352, 355, 359, 361–5 Canning, George, MP 188 Broadhurst, Henry, MP 190 Carlile, Richard 155 Brock, Thomas 313 Carlyle, Thomas Broks, Peter 372 Chartism 121 Brookhouse, Joseph 41 critic of ‘industrialism’ 12 Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron heroes of 332 Brougham and Vaux on inventors 175 epitaphs to James Watt 94 n. 13 On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in Lives of men of letters and science 127 history 21–2, 23, 121 monument to James Watt 101 n. 41, 105 on James Watt 120, 178, 193 patent system 183, 184 on steam power 130–1 SDUK 140, 173–4, 196 Carmichael, Charles 332 speech against corn law 137–8 Carmichael, James 332–3 Whig Party 93–4 monument to, Dundee 332–3, 365 workers’ education 190 Carnegie, Andrew 346–7 Brown, Ford Madox 118 n. 119, 341 Caroline, Queen 17 Bruce, Robert the 112 n. 87, 122, 346 cartoons 198–9 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Cartwright, Reverend Edmund as heroic engineer 377 biographical entry to 174 as ‘Victorian man of achievement’ 316 fame 181 bi-centenary of 387 parliamentary grant to 253 celebrity of 199–200, 210–11 portrait of 228 commemorations of 318 reputation 72, 222 commemorative window to, Westminster wool-combing machinery (‘Big Ben’) Abbey 319 41–2, 47 concept of invention 267, 269 Cassell, John 213 enterprise of 328 Cavendish, Henry 94 n. 13, 225 monument to, London 233, 290 Cawley, John 284 patent system, opposition to 250, 265 Caxton, William 258, 381–2, 383 photograph of 294 celebrity status 199 n. 94 rediscovery of 387, 391 centenaries 23, 338–42, 384 statues to 387 Chain, Sir Ernest 392 Brunel, Marc Isambard Chalmers, George 70 block-making machinery 73, 74 Chamberlain, Joseph 275 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-15382-9 - Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 Christine MacLeod Index More information Index 443 Chantrey, Sir Francis 98–9, 113, 118, mining industry 107–8, 309, 343 120, 153 regional identity of 343 character 151, 177 Cort, Henry 40, 189, 221, 340 Charles I, equestrian statue of 17 Coryton, John 267, 368 Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-Ce´sar 61 cotton industry 64, 67–8, 102, 104, 106, Charlton, Matthew 42 n. 66 136–7, 194 Chartists 129, 160–1, 185, 222, 281 Courtauld, Samuel 264 chemical industry 246, 388 Coventry University 390 Chemical Society 246 Craik, George L. 132, 173–6, 196 Chemist, The 155–6 Pictorial history of England 140 chemistry 355, 361 Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, The children, books for 394 127, 174 Christie, John 37 Craske, Matthew 18 City of London, freedom of 241–2, 244 ‘create’, early use of 149, 178 civic pride 112, 117, 347 Creighton, William 106 Clarion, The 373 Crimean War 118, 219–20, 227 Clarke, Cuthbert 74 Crompton, George 181, 189 Clephan, James 296–7 Crompton, Samuel clock makers 74–5 as hero of peace 221 Clockmakers’ Company 340, 388 as national benefactor 254, 282, 304 coal 136, 137, 148 as workers’ hero 193, 286, 297–305, 314 Coalbrookdale 63 centenary celebrations 384–5 Cobbe, Frances Power examplar 171 Age of science, The 373 fame 193 Cobbett, William 94, 129, 154, 157 family, Bolton’s neglect of 303–4 Cobden, Richard 118, 133, 216, 219, grave of 300 229, 230 invention 301 Cochrane, Robert, 236, 375, 376 monument to 4, 300, 302–3 Heroes of invention and discovery 376 neglect of 118, 329 Romance of industry and invention, parliamentary grant to 184, 189, 253, 298 The 376 portrait of 228, 299 Cockburn, Henry 109, 110–11 poverty of 297–8 Cole, Henry 271 Crook, Mr, MP for Bolton 299–300, 301 Colley, Linda 92 Cubitt, William 250 Collini, Stefan 11, 283 cultural hegemony, aristocratic 12–14, 92 Colquhoun, Sir James 188 culture 11, 13–14, 395 Colquhoun, Patrick 64, 82 Cunningham, H.
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