ABSTRACT
A characteristic image of British industry in 1900 might have been a man shovelling coal. In 1950 it could have been a man in a white laboratory coat looking at a test tube. In 1999 it might be a woman using a computer for spectrographic analysis. Industry acquired an increasingly scientific image during the twentieth century, and the objectives of this chapter are to assess the archaeology of the chemical industries which lie at the heart of twentieth-century manufactures, to identify some of the most important sites and the kinds of record appropriate to concerns that have been influential on many aspects of people’s lives. The unscientific image of the chemical industry at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: West Bank Viaduct at Widnes. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315025070/f93c3fbd-5133-41cc-bbde-8828259a62b7/content/fig6_1_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> (Crown copyright. NMR)
