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Industrial buildings
Design for an accumulator tower, Victoria Docks, London
RIBA10222
NOTES: Accumulator towers in docks of this period provided hydraulic power for the dockside cranes. The building was demolished in the 1920s.
Multiplying wheel bucket engine
RIBA10280
SOURCE: Stephen Switzer. An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks (London, 1729), pl. 17
Dungeness A nuclear power station and the Old Lighthouse, Kent
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NOTES: This Magnox power station, connected to the National Grid in 1965, was one of eleven commissioned in the United Kingdom between 1956 and 1971. It was shut down in 2006.
