> Sadly, even Roger baulked at challenging the easy
>notion that itinerant Cornishmen took the art and craft of mining to all
>points on the globe. Some targets are perhaps just too big!
Not the way I read it - maybe I was reading between the lines.
Roger rightly makes the case that technological change is a co-operative
activity and does not respect national boandaries. It has been going on for
centuries in mining but some historians do latch on to visually prominent
features and hinge the argument on those rather than the facts: beit the
Cornish or the 'Germans', an engine house or Agricola. Imagine if the
Cornish engine had been invented lying down and not needed such a
substantial structure.
Peter
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