A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... experiments with the Tullian drill - husbandry and on the growth of trees , but he was influenced a good deal by Tull's theory that the more the soil is comminuted the more it becomes available as plant food ; in other respects his ...
... experiments with the Tullian drill - husbandry and on the growth of trees , but he was influenced a good deal by Tull's theory that the more the soil is comminuted the more it becomes available as plant food ; in other respects his ...
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... experiments with mills built according to his plans . In his account of this work , which was not printed until nearly 300 years later , he tried to calculate the amount of water thrown out by the scoop - wheel and the pressure on the ...
... experiments with mills built according to his plans . In his account of this work , which was not printed until nearly 300 years later , he tried to calculate the amount of water thrown out by the scoop - wheel and the pressure on the ...
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... EXPERIMENTS At the time when John Smeaton ( 1724-92 ) was born , many industries were dependent on water - wheels for the power to drive machinery . Horse - mills were inadequate , and windmills were unsuitable for processes where ...
... EXPERIMENTS At the time when John Smeaton ( 1724-92 ) was born , many industries were dependent on water - wheels for the power to drive machinery . Horse - mills were inadequate , and windmills were unsuitable for processes where ...
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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