A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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Page 21
... improvements had been made in the management of both arable and grassland . This had been assisted by the design of new and improved implements , not the least of which was the Rotherham plough ( p 2 ) , innumerable horse - hoes and ...
... improvements had been made in the management of both arable and grassland . This had been assisted by the design of new and improved implements , not the least of which was the Rotherham plough ( p 2 ) , innumerable horse - hoes and ...
Page 101
... improved considerably . Closed coking - ovens of brick , in shape resembling a beehive , began to be used in place of open piles similar to those in which charcoal was made ( figure 56 ) . Of greater importance was wider adoption of ...
... improved considerably . Closed coking - ovens of brick , in shape resembling a beehive , began to be used in place of open piles similar to those in which charcoal was made ( figure 56 ) . Of greater importance was wider adoption of ...
Page 311
... improved machinery had ' up to a very recent period ' been made for throwing silk . The improvements did not involve any fundamental changes in the throwing processes , and were mainly constructional alterations in the machinery . For ...
... improved machinery had ' up to a very recent period ' been made for throwing silk . The improvements did not involve any fundamental changes in the throwing processes , and were mainly constructional alterations in the machinery . For ...
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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