A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... effect therefore of overshot wheels , under the same circumstances of quantity and fall , is at medium double that of the undershot . NAVELLER FIGURE 94 - Inside the wheel - house at Marly - la - Machine as reconstructed in the mid ...
... effect therefore of overshot wheels , under the same circumstances of quantity and fall , is at medium double that of the undershot . NAVELLER FIGURE 94 - Inside the wheel - house at Marly - la - Machine as reconstructed in the mid ...
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... effect or power of a breast - wheel would be the sum of ( a ) the effect of an undershot with a head equal to the difference in height between the surface of the water in the storage pond and the level where it struck the wheel , and ...
... effect or power of a breast - wheel would be the sum of ( a ) the effect of an undershot with a head equal to the difference in height between the surface of the water in the storage pond and the level where it struck the wheel , and ...
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Charles Singer. fused by failure to distinguish between the effect of low stresses , which produce small elastic distortions in accordance with Hooke's law , and the effect of high stresses , which , in ductile materials , produce large ...
Charles Singer. fused by failure to distinguish between the effect of low stresses , which produce small elastic distortions in accordance with Hooke's law , and the effect of high stresses , which , in ductile materials , produce large ...
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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