Main entry:

Jarvis, Adrian.

Title & Author:

The Liverpool dock engineers / Adrian Jarvis.

Publication:

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Alan Sutton Pub. Ltd., 1996.

Description:

xxii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published in association with the Trustees of the National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside.
Poster (1 folded sheet) inserted.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Boundaries of Engineering History -- 1. Dock Engineers: the Professional Origins -- 2. Planning and Decision Making -- 3. How Good an Investment was Dockbuilding? -- 4. The Problem of Competition -- 5. The Staff in the Dock Yard and their Work -- 6. After the Silver Spade: Sitework and Site Management in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 7. Fitting Out: Some Developments in the Equipment of the Docks -- Postscript: Changing Times: the Dock Yard in Distress.

Summary:

"The Liverpool Dock Engineers is the first book to be written specifically on dock engineers and their work. Using the Mersey Docks and Harbour archive, Adrian Jarvis reveals more detail of dock engineering work at every level, the theory and the practice, the site management and working methods, than has been possible before. Particular attention has been paid to 'finding' the usually neglected men at third and fourth tiers in the structure who were key figures in every engineering organisation or project." "By the time A.G. Lyster retired as Engineer-in-Chief in 1913, dock engineering embraced such a range of specialisms that it was no longer possible for one man to do as Hartley had done and master every aspect of it. The days of his degree of integration were numbered, but while they lasted the development of dock engineering was almost synonymous with the work of the Liverpool dock engineers."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0750910933
9780750910934

Subject:

Docks England Liverpool History.
Docks England Liverpool Design and construction History.
Docks Angleterre Liverpool Histoire.
Docks.
Docks Design and construction.
England Liverpool.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126842
Call No.: ID TC355.J3; ID:97-B1190
Status: Available