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A Comparative Architectural History – This talk is adapted from one that the lecturer David Hardwick was asked to present to the conference on Early Steam Engines in Central European Mining on 8th October 2022, held in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. It builds on his previous research into the engine houses in Brislington (nr Bristol, England), Auchenharvie (Ayrshire, Scotland) and Dannemora (Sweden), to consider the evidence available, both physical and documentary, regarding what buildings elsewhere in Europe may have looked like.

About The Lecturer

David is a self employed chartered building specialist in historic buildings and particularly industrial archaeology.  For more than a decade, he has been researching the nature of the construction of the buildings that housed the first engines following the invention of the atmospheric engine by Thomas Newcomen.