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Archaeology, Industrial |
 | | Industrial archaeology originated in Great Britain, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in the late 1950s as a response to the alarming rate at which the nation's industrial and engineering heritage was being destroyed, and as a celebration of the lives and works of industrialists, engineers and inventors of the early industrial period. |
 | | Provincial societies are the Ontario Society for Industrial Archaeology (1981) and Association Québecoise pour le patrimoine industriel (1988). |
 | | In Europe, where there is interest in teaching industrial archaeology, the field attracts mostly academic historians of technology or architecture; in N America work is carried on mainly by museum and HISTORIC SITES personnel, or historic preservationists, including historians, curators, architects, archaeologists, planners, photographers and teachers. |
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