Edinburgh at work : people and industries through the years

Fife, Malcolm (Aviation historian)2018

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Edinburgh has always been different. It was affected less than any other city in Britain by the Industrial Revolution, remaining essentially professional rather than industrial, while enjoying a reputation as a hub of intellectual thought during the Scottish Enlightenment of the late 18th and early 19th centuries: Adam Smith, David Hume, James Hutton and James Watt are only a few of the many eminent thinkers associated with the city. It was also during this period that the city began to spread beyond the confines of the cramped Castle Rock tenements, extending northwards with the building of the Georgian New Town, and eventually swallowing up many smaller surrounding burghs, including the port of Leith.