Industrial archeology concerns itself by owning a physical remains of industry. These are innate away from a require to record & preserve a remains of industrialization prior to it disappear. A learn occurs when multi-disciplinary a single encompassing engineering, architecture, economic science & social aspects of manufacturing/ extractive industry likewise as a transfer & utilities sector. Still, non whole aspects of a particular industry would fall into the definition of industrial archeology.

A term was coined inside the Fifties in Birmingham by Michael Rix (Palmer 1998:1).

By the Palmer & Neaverson (Industrial archeology Lesson & Practice, 1998), industrial archaeology is defined when: “the orderly survey of structures & artefact as a means of enlarging my understanding of the industrial past.�

As an interest good largely by amateurs, these are ordinarily surfed down upon by office archeologist. Nonetheless, when a timeframe of learn is comparatively recent, industrial archeology is swell situated to get on the basis of supplementary dependable & absolute recording of its past, present & first than more areas or even archeologic interest.

Exclusions
Railways: Train, Rolling Stock Electricity: Anything following the power station, unless it has architectural merit. the social aspects of rolling out a transmission network would exist as involved, however recording people pylons would does'nt. Canals: Boat, Barge, Narrowboat

Specific Industry Sectors
Extractive Manufacturing Public Utilities Transport

Extractive
MINING Adit Air Vent Level Mine, Copper Mine, Coal mine, Gold mine, Tin mine, Lead/Zinc Mine Shaft

QUARRYING Clayworks Sand Pits Gravel Pit

Powder house

Manufacturing
Beam engine Brewery Brewing Brick kiln Cement Factory Creamery Dairy Distillery Distilling Factory Forge Granary Hopper Kiln Mill, Boring mill, Cotton mill, Five-sail windmill, Flax mill, Flint mill, Fulling mill, 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 Stationary Locomotive Stationary Steam engine Silk Industry Spinning, Spinning jenny, Spinning mill, Spinning mule Warehouse Weaving,Loom, Jacquard loom, Dobby loom, Shaft loom, Power loom, Flying shuttle Windpump

Public Utilities
Dam, Reservoir Electricity, Power Station, Turbine Gas, Gasometer, Retort House Sewage Treatment Water Treatment

Transport
CANAL Aqueduct Basin Boat lift Bridge Canal lock Culvert Flights of locks Inclined plane Spillover

RAILWAY Air Vent Ballast Pit Bridge Buffer Stops Carriage Shed Catch Point Cattle Pens Crane Crossover Culvert Cutting Embankment Footbridge Gantry Crane Goods Area Goods Store Ground Frame Horse tram Inclined plane Junction Loading Bank Locomotive Shed Level Crossing Milepost Platform Ropeway Signal Cabin Station [{Station building]] Station House Subway Track Trackbed Tram Tunnel Turnout Turntable Underpass Viaduct Waiting Room Water Column Water Tank Water Tower

MARINE Causeway Dry Dock Dock Harbour Lighthouse Pier Pump House Quay Slipway

ROAD Bridge Turnpike

General
Chimney Hydraulic Pump Market House Weighbridge Weir

See also: List of Conservation topics, Conservation in the United Kingdom, Industrial archaeology of Dartmoor, History of Science and Technology, Association for Industrial Archaeology

Wiki Links to Specific Locations
Box Tunnel The 4 Pots Quarry Bank Mill