The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
James Brindley's canal for the Duke of Bridgewater carried coal from the Worsley mines directly into Manchester, crossing the Irwell on the Barton aqueduct and running underground into the workings themselves. The delivered price of coal in the city is generally reported to have roughly halved, and the demonstration set off three decades of canal promotion.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- The Bridgewater Canal · infrastructure · United Kingdom · not located
- The British canal network · network · United Kingdom · not located
- Coal · natural resource · United Kingdom · not located
- Manchester · city · United Kingdom
Evidence
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
Cambridge University Press · 2009 · Partly verified
Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
Recorded on The Bridgewater Canal
- The first commercially successful steam engine begins pumping
- The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
- The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens
- Women and young boys are barred from working underground
- Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
- The census records an urban majority
Related
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- The census records an urban majority · 1851
- Women and young boys are barred from working underground · 1842
- Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population · 1842
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens · 1830-09-15
- The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens · 1825-09-27
- The first commercially successful steam engine begins pumping · 1712