A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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Page 173
... Newcomen , who achieved a success immeasurably greater than any- thing previously attained . He first established the steam - engine as a practical and reliable machine . Newcomen left no account of the conception or the development of ...
... Newcomen , who achieved a success immeasurably greater than any- thing previously attained . He first established the steam - engine as a practical and reliable machine . Newcomen left no account of the conception or the development of ...
Page 174
... Newcomen found existing in the English tin mines . These mines , Mr. Newcomen often visited in the capacity of a dealer in iron tools with which he used to furnish many of the tin mines . The statement that Newcomen had no knowledge of ...
... Newcomen found existing in the English tin mines . These mines , Mr. Newcomen often visited in the capacity of a dealer in iron tools with which he used to furnish many of the tin mines . The statement that Newcomen had no knowledge of ...
Page 178
... Newcomen's invention was being exploited under these patents . The client paid separately for the materials and component parts , which were assembled and erected on the site by the appro- priate craftsmen supervised by an engineer . By ...
... Newcomen's invention was being exploited under these patents . The client paid separately for the materials and component parts , which were assembled and erected on the site by the appro- priate craftsmen supervised by an engineer . By ...
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GLASS by L M ANGUSBUTTERWORTH Director The Newton Heath Glass | 12 |
TELEGRAPHY by G R M GARRATT Deputy Keeper Department of Electrical | 22 |
FISH PRESERVATION by C L CUTTING Officer in Charge Humber | 44 |
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agricultural beam became Boulton Boulton and Watt bridge Britain British built canal carbon carried cast iron chemical clay coal Coalbrookdale coke construction copper crops cylinder D. E. Woodall developed diameter driving E. J. HOLMYARD early eighteenth century engine England Europe farming figure fish France French furnace glass heat husbandry Ibid important improved inches increased industrial revolution introduced invention J. F. Horrabin John Smeaton later lathe London machine machinery manufacture mechanical metal method mill mineral mines Newcomen Newcomen engine nineteenth century obtained operation oxide Paris patent Photograph by courtesy pipe piston plate practice produced pump river road rollers rotation Rotherham plough salt Science Museum screw sewers shaft ships silk Smeaton smelting Staffordshire steam steam-engine steel stone sulphuric acid surface tion tuyère vertical ware water-wheels watermills Watt whales wheel wooden wrought iron