A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 81
Page 209
... important stage in the development of water - power , and fully justify his honoured place in the history of engineering and technology . After his death , revolutionary improvements in design took place , the most important being all ...
... important stage in the development of water - power , and fully justify his honoured place in the history of engineering and technology . After his death , revolutionary improvements in design took place , the most important being all ...
Page 319
... important improvement devised in Great Britain was that of W. Jennings , who so rearranged the ties in the Jacquard harness that with other alterations it became possible to place the machine in a much lower position over the loom ...
... important improvement devised in Great Britain was that of W. Jennings , who so rearranged the ties in the Jacquard harness that with other alterations it became possible to place the machine in a much lower position over the loom ...
Page 354
... important was this innovation in promoting the speedy reduplication of a standard design that the block - cutter became one of the most important workers in the pottery industry . Many potters made their blocks themselves , but demand ...
... important was this innovation in promoting the speedy reduplication of a standard design that the block - cutter became one of the most important workers in the pottery industry . Many potters made their blocks themselves , but demand ...
Contents
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 |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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