This introduction sets out the origins and evolution of the mechanics institute, a nineteenth century phenomenon, emerging from the 1820s and continuing into the years preceding the First World War.
The institutes were the product of the Industrial Revolution which had created demand for a workforce to manage its machinery, to tend, repair and improve the complex mechanisation that revolutionised our output. They provided education for...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1848025289
ISBN13:9781848025288
Release Date:August 2017
Publisher:Historic England
Length:16 Pages
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