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==Steam engines==
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Is this:
:The long-established industrial processes in the city meant that it was actually quite late in adopting the methods of the Industrial Revolution - manufacturing was so efficient and workshops so small that the steam engine, developed in Birmingham by Boulton and James Watt around 1770, did not find widespread use in the city for another sixty years
true? [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]] 11:13, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
: According to Hopkins, yes - and I've read the same in other places. A multitude of small workshops couldn't make effective use of steam power, and rather than having a big factory with a production line, the city itself was effectively a production line with no overall owner. The Gun Quarter is a good example - loads of little independent workshops all doing one particular process, and taking parts just down the road to someone else for the next stage of manufacture or assembly, whereas a purpose built factory would have taken in metal ingots at one end and turned out guns at the other end. Birmingham's industrialisation started very early, which meant it didn't adopt "modern" methods in the late 18th/early 19th century. I believe this had become quite a problem by the mid 19th century, it was certainly mentioned in one of the older city histories I saw the other day. --[[User:Brumburger|Brumburger]] 13:14, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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==Goings-on in the week starting Sunday January 30 2005==
*The first [[Wikipedia:Wikiportal|Wikiportal]], [[Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Biology|Biology]], has been created. The idea was first introduced in the German Wikipedia, and later in the French, Polish, Dutch, Japanese and Hebrew ones.
*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|The Wikipedia Signpost]], published weekly on Mondays, is now in its fourth issue.
* [[Infoworld]] blogger [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/ Jon Udell] creates [http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html Heavy Metal Umlaut, the movie] (8 megabyte flash movie) based on the evolution of Wikipedia's article on [[Heavy metal umlaut]], which is a [[wikipedia:featured article|featured article]].
*A [[m:Wikimedia press releases/Wikimania conference|press release]] is being worked on for the upcoming [[m:Wikimania:Main Page|Wikimania 2005]] conference.
*Four new [[Meta:Wikinews|Wikinews]] sites have been created in [http://fr.wikinews.org/wiki/ French], [http://nl.wikinews.org/wiki/ Dutch], [http://es.wikinews.org/wiki/ Spanish] and [http://sv.wikinews.org/wiki/ Swedish].
*A discussion is ongoing on the interaction between all Wikipedias and Google at [[m:nofollow]].
*A second meeting of the [[Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates|Association of Members' Advocates]] was scheduled for Sunday, January 30, 2005.
*[[Meta:Talk:Www.wikipedia.org_portal#Poll_on_Catherine.27s_version|Voting]] continues as to whether Catherine's [[Meta:Www.wikipedia.org_portal/Catherine|new version]] should replace the [[Meta:Www.wikipedia.org_portal|current version]] of the Wikipedia portal.
*Discussion opens on a [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy/Personal attacks|revived proposal]] to enforce the [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks|no personal attacks]] policy by means of temporary blocks.
* Wikipedia reaches 500 [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured articles]].
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* [[Laal language]] (January 30)
* ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' (January 31)
* [[Mahatma Gandhi]] (February 1)
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* [[Battle of Alesia]] (January 30)
* [[Hrafnkels saga]] (January 30)
* [[Cambodia]] (January 30)
* [[Robert Oppenheimer]] (February 2)
* [[Battle of Warsaw (1920)]] (February 2)
* [[Commonwealth of Nations]] (February 2)
* [[Graffiti]] (February 2)
* [[Krag-Jørgensen]] (February 4)
* [[Evolution]] (February 4)
* [[Big Bang]] (February 4)
* [[X Window System]] (February 4)
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