A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... developed ; this is technically known as the longwall method ( figure 47 ) . When the mines were shallow , or where the LEVEL coal was thick , clean , and strong , this system was not used , and it did not come into common use elsewhere ...
... developed ; this is technically known as the longwall method ( figure 47 ) . When the mines were shallow , or where the LEVEL coal was thick , clean , and strong , this system was not used , and it did not come into common use elsewhere ...
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... developed as it did without gas - light . So great was the impetus created by the rapid success of the early companies , that England became responsible for many of the installations on the continent of Europe and in America . An ...
... developed as it did without gas - light . So great was the impetus created by the rapid success of the early companies , that England became responsible for many of the installations on the continent of Europe and in America . An ...
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... developed to withstand the vibration of the steam - engine , but it proved suitable for sailing - ships also , except for the fact that the bottom fouled quickly . Steamships were fully rigged as long as engines were unreliable , but as ...
... developed to withstand the vibration of the steam - engine , but it proved suitable for sailing - ships also , except for the fact that the bottom fouled quickly . Steamships were fully rigged as long as engines were unreliable , but as ...
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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