Download or read book Lead Manufacturing in Britain written by D. J. Rowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983. Extensive research into the archives of the lead industry has culminated in this comprehensive and fascinating account of the industry from the earliest times to the 1980’s. It traces the origins of the various types of lead manufacturing and the nineteenth-century expansion of the industry. The technological changes within the industry are traced in detail, and an appraisal of modern industry and its future prospects concluded this definitive and very readable history of the lead industry.