List of industrial archaeology topics
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This is a list of topics typically studied by students of industrial archaeology.
It is grouped into industry sectors: Extractive, Manufacturing, Public Utilities, Transport, Miscellaneous.
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[edit] Extractive
[edit] Mining
- Adit
- Air vent
- Level
- Mine, Copper mine, Coal mine, Gold mine, Tin mine, Lead/Zinc mine
- Shaft mining
[edit] Quarrying
- Clayworks
- Sand pits
- Gravel pit
- Powder house
[edit] Manufacturing
- Beam engine
- Brewery
- Brewing
- Brick kiln
- Cement works
- Creamery
- Dairy
- Distillery
- Distilling
- Factory
- Forge
- Granary
- Hopper
- Kiln
- Silk Industry
- Spinning, Spinning jenny, Spinning mill, Spinning mule
- Stationary engine
- Steam engine
- Warehouse
- Weaving,Loom, Jacquard loom, Dobby loom, Shaft loom, Power loom, Flying shuttle
- Windpump
[edit] Mills
- Boring mill
- Cotton mill
- Five-sail windmill
- Flax mill
- Flint mill
- Fulling mill - see Fulling
- Hand mill
- Iron mill
- Lumber mill
- Millrace
- Mill engine
- Mill stone
- Oil mill
- Post mill
- Rolling mill
- Saw mill
- Smock mill
- Spinning mill
- Steel rolling mill
- Tailrace
- Textile mill
- Tide mill
- Tower mill
- Watermill
- Waterwheel
- Windmill
- Woollen mill
[edit] Public Utilities
[edit] Electricity
[edit] Gas
- Gasometer
- Retort house
[edit] Water
[edit] Steam
[edit] Hydraulic power
[edit] Transport
[edit] Aviation
[edit] Canals
- Aqueduct
- Basin
- Boat lift
- Bridge
- Canal lock
- Culvert
- Flash lock
- Flights of locks
- Inclined plane
- Spillover
[edit] Railways
- Air vent
- Ballast pit
- Bridge
- Buffer stops
- Carriage Shed
- Catch point
- Cattle Pens
- Crane
- Crossover
- Culvert
- Cutting
- Embankment
- Footbridge
- Gantry crane (Portainer)
- Goods area
- Goods store
- Ground frame
- Horse tram
- Inclined plane
- Junction
- Loading bank
- Locomotive shed
- Level crossing
- Milepost
- Platform
- Ropeway
- Signal box (Signal cabin)
- Station
- Station building
- Station house
- Subway
- Track
- Trackbed
- Tram
- Tunnel
- Turnout
- Turntable
- Underpass
- Viaduct
- Waiting room
- Water column
- Water tank
- Water tower
[edit] Marine
[edit] Road
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Chimney
- Hydraulic pump
- Market house
- Weighbridge
