Two iron columns with gas fittings and cast-iron fittings with cotters and tie-bar from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials, instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Cast iron column with gas fittings. From William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
Cast iron column with gas fittings.
Metal Tie/Pin
Gas fitting consisting of cast iron skewback and cylindrical spigot with iron cotters from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials. Instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Gas fitting consisting of cast iron skewback and cylindrical spigot with iron cotters from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials. Instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Tie bar from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials. Instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Wooden beam from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials. Instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Wooden beam from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials. Instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Four wooden fittings held together with cord from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials. Instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
Cast-iron component with ridge down the centre and three oval holes, two on one side and one on the other, from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.
William Strutt, a civil engineer, architect and entrepreneur in cotton, is well known for being an early pioneer and promoter of fire-resistant building design. William Strutt was inspired to improve the safety of buildings after seeing his father's old mill burn down. He applied these ideas to his own buildings. This material are examples of how he redesigned cotton mills, avoiding the use of timber and other flammable materials, instead using cast ironwork, bricks, and ceramics.
This material comes from William Strutt's first attempt at designing a fire-proof building at his Belper estate, known as the Cruciform due to its cross-shaped layout. Constructed in 1793, it has often been described as the first true attempt to design an intentionally fireproof (or at least as fire-resistant as possible) multi-storey building design. By extension most modern building design can track its 'DNA' back to this late 18th century construction, and the novel and revolutionary engineering philosophy its founded upon.
William Strutt's would continue to improve his buidlign designs over the next 30 years, contructing increasingly impressive fireproof buildings on his Belper estate, and his ideas later serving as the foundation of the massive Victorian dockyards, rail stations, and factories which can still be found across the UK today.
Of Strutt's original mill sites, only the North Mill in Belper remains, and is now a World Heritage Site.
