A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... carried out experiments on his estate at Freschines , where in ten years he doubled the yield of wheat and increased by fivefold the number of livestock carried . Priestley noticed that plants confined in an atmosphere rich in carbon ...
... carried out experiments on his estate at Freschines , where in ten years he doubled the yield of wheat and increased by fivefold the number of livestock carried . Priestley noticed that plants confined in an atmosphere rich in carbon ...
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... carried a water - mill operated by the irrigation spill - over . In Egypt the dual - purpose Mehmondieh canal was dug between 1800 and 1825 , to carry the waters of the Nile to Alexandria . 350 000 navvies worked on it , but the line ...
... carried a water - mill operated by the irrigation spill - over . In Egypt the dual - purpose Mehmondieh canal was dug between 1800 and 1825 , to carry the waters of the Nile to Alexandria . 350 000 navvies worked on it , but the line ...
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... carried either in wheeled caissons full of water , or dry in wheeled cradles , or ran on their own wheels ( figure 314 ) . Water was the usual , steam the occasional , motive - power . The greatest vertical height of any British plane carry ...
... carried either in wheeled caissons full of water , or dry in wheeled cradles , or ran on their own wheels ( figure 314 ) . Water was the usual , steam the occasional , motive - power . The greatest vertical height of any British plane carry ...
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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