This book combines a description of about fifty important textile machines with an analysis of their evolution. Each machine is dealt with in the context of its time, showing the impact that even a simple device like the fulling stocks had on textile production. The greater organisation of the domestic system in the eighteenth century gave impetus to the development of machines like the dandy loom and the spinning jenny. The author examines the revolutionary inventions of the late eighteenth century and how they led to the industrialisation of the textile industry.

Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling waarin de figuur van keizer Karel V (1500-1558) en de wereld waarin hij leefde centraal staan.

De ervaringen van een Nederlandse dwangarbeider in Duitsland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Recent years have seen several fascinating Australian autobiographies and there are, of course, a number of excellent general texts on today's environmental problems, though few of them focus on the Australian scene. What Graham Chittleborough has done in masterly fashion is to combine the two genres and garnish the whole with piquant experiences of Australian politics and bureaucracy. This is a striking account both of his life as an ecologist and of what the lives of our grandchildren may prove to be unless we mend our environmental ways. His focus is Australia but his reach is global and there are few parts of the world and few environmental problems left unvisited. No mere cassandra, he proposes remedies as well as sounds warnings, and with it all he is as entertaining as he is instructive.

The Commandos were formed in summer 1940 and their first raid was on the Lofoten Islands on 4 March 1941. Later, the attack on Vaagso showed how effective Commandos could be, destroying a German garrison, taking 102 prisoners, blowing up a coastal defence battery and destroying 18,000 tons of shipping at a cost of 20 killed. Amphibious raids pointed up to the need for better intelligence and control on the beaches, so the RN Commandos were formed. They took part in all the main amphibious operations from then on -- including Dieppe, Torch, Husky, Monte Cristo and Pantelleria, Salerno and Anzio, Elba, Arakan, Overlord, Walcheren and crossing the Rhine. Elsewhere, Commandos performed with great glory in the Desert War and in the Middle East. Book jacket.

Beskrivelse med mange illustrationer af hvordan den måske mest effektive luftværnskanon under 2. verdenskrig også i vidt omfang blev anvendt mod jordmål

Mogelijk uitgegeven door de Stichting Indië in Nood.

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