List of industrial archaeology topics
This is a list of topics typically studied by students of industrial archaeology.
It is grouped into industry sectors: Extractive, Manufacturing, Public Utilities, Transport, Miscellaneous.
Extractive
Mining
Quarrying
Manufacturing
- Beam engine
- Brewery
- Brewing
- Brick kiln
- Cement works
- Creamery
- Dairy
- Distillery
- Distilling
- Factory
- Forge
- glass
- Granary
- Hopper
- Kiln
- Pottery
- Silk Industry
- Spinning, Spinning jenny, Spinning mill, Spinning mule
- Stationary engine
- Steam engine
- Warehouse
- Weaving, Loom, Jacquard loom, Dobby loom, Shaft loom, Power loom, Flying shuttle
- Windpump
Mills
- Boring mill
- Cotton mill
- Five-sail windmill
- Flax mill
- Flint mill
- Fulling mill - see Fulling
- Gristmill
- 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
Public Utilities
Electricity
Gas
Water
Steam
Hydraulic power
Transport
Canals
- Aqueduct
- Canal basin
- Boat lift
- Bridge
- Canal lock
- Culvert
- Flash lock
- Flights of locks
- Inclined plane
- Spillover
Railways
- Air vent
- Ballast pit
- Bridge
- Buffer stops
- Carriage Shed
- Catch point
- Cattle Pens
- Crane
- Crossover
- Culvert
- Cutting
- Embankment
- Footbridge
- Gantry crane (Portainer)
- Goods area
- Goods store
- Ground frame
- Horse tram
- Inclined plane
- Junction (rail)
- Loading bank
- Locomotive shed
- Level crossing
- Milepost
- Platform
- Ropeway
- Signal box (Signal cabin)
- Station
- Station building
- Station house
- Subway
- Track
- Trackbed
- Tram
- Tunnel
- Turnout
- Turntable
- Underpass
- Viaduct
- Waiting room
- Water column
- Water tank
- Water tower