Richard L Hills

Biographic Data

ID1107054
NAMERichard L Hills
GIVEN NAMESRichard L
FAMILY NAMEHills
SIGNATUREHILLS R L
AFFILIATIONSStamford and Rutland Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX1

  • John Watt's map of the Clyde

    Open AccessRichard L HillsARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1998

    John Smeaton was engaged from 1755 to 1761 in an abortive attempt to improve the navigation of the river Clyde up to Glasgow. His volumes of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Designs in the Library of the Royal Society contain the maps and plans of the scheme. One is entitled ‘The River of Clyde surveyed by John Watt’. Although surveyed by John Watt in 1734, it was only published posthumously by his nephew James Watt, the famous steam engine impro…

  • Energy in World History . Vaclav Smil

    Richard L HillsARTICLEIsis1995

  • Power from Wind

    John Muendel, Richard L HillsARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    Introduction 1. The wind 2. The horizontal windmill 3. The post mill 4. Tower and smock mills 5. Windmill sails 6. Windmills for land drainage 7. Windpower in industry 8. The demise of the traditional windmill 9. The windmill for pumping water and water supply 10. Electric power from the wind Glossary and bibliography

  • Power from Steam

    John Bowditch, Richard L HillsARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

  • Papermaking in Britain, 1488-1988

    Marcella Genz, Marcella D Genz et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

  • Beyer, Peacock

    Fritz Lehmann, R L Hill et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

  • Waterloo Ironworks

    R L Hill, Richard L Hills et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1976

  • Liverpool and Manchester Railway Operations, 1831-1845

    Richard L Hills, Thomas J DonaghyARTICLETechnology and Culture1975

  • The Measurement of Power in Early Steam-Driven Textile Mills

    R L Hill, Richard L Hills et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1972Cited by: 2

  • The Draining of the Somerset Levels

    R L Hill, Richard L Hills et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • Sir Richard Arkwright and his patent granted in 1769

    Open AccessRichard L Hills, Harold Brewer Hartley et al.ARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…1970

    FOR a person to rise from being a poor barber in a small town to a wealthy Knight of the Realm and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby suggests that he must have possessed some ability, even if it was only using other people’s ideas. Sir Richard Arkwright’s rise to riches and fame started with his spinning patent taken out in 1769. His fortune aroused considerable envy and hostility at the time, partly because people thought he had copied the …

  • Power in the Industrial Revolution

    G N Von Tunzelmann, G Ν Von Tunzelmann et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1970

  • Machines, Mills and Uncountable Costly Necessities

    H A M C Dibbits, Richard L HillsARTICLETechnology and Culture1969