| ID: | 4685 |
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| Entry Text: | Coad, Jonathan G. The Portsmouth Block Mills: Bentham, Brunel and the Start of the Royal Navy's Industrial Revolution. Swindon: English Heritage, 2005, 127 pp. English Heritage Report; just before embarking for the Mediterranean, on 14 September 1805, Nelson inspected new steam powered block mills; Samuel Bentham & Marc Brunel; produced 170,000 blocks per year in 1807. |