Philanthropy, industry and the city of Manchester: the impact of Sir Joseph Whitworth’s philanthropy on Manchester’s built environment
Sir Joseph Whitworth was one of the most successful industrialists of nineteenth-century Manchester and made significant contributions to the development of engineering through improving precision and standardisation in machine tools. He also had an important and hitherto largely neglected impact on...
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Science Museum, London
2021-11-01
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| Series: | Science Museum Group Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-16/philanthropy-industry-and-the-city/ |