Summary
In 1863, decades before the appearance of the first motor cars, Armstrong foresaw the energy dilemmas that we face today -- and put his faith in what we now call alternative technology. As president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he predicted with astonishing accuracy the end of coalmining in Britain and lamented the inefficiency of steam engines, furnaces and domestic fires at converting the energy produced by coal.
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Lord of the Crags
There is a corner of Northumberland, in the valley of the River Coquet, where the climate has been changed for ever by the actions of one man.
In the mid-1860s, William Armstrong set out to transform vast tracts of raw, bleak moorland into what he described as 'an earthly paradise' and by the time of his death in 1900, at the age of 9...See the full content of this document
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