A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... iron weighing about 6 tons . A is the hammer head and B the hammer . The Outside Britain the adoption of coke - furnaces proceeded very slowly . The first continental one for iron - smelting was erected at the French state ironworks at ...
... iron weighing about 6 tons . A is the hammer head and B the hammer . The Outside Britain the adoption of coke - furnaces proceeded very slowly . The first continental one for iron - smelting was erected at the French state ironworks at ...
Page 106
... iron . Wrought iron , although now an unimportant commodity , was still the principal metal in use about 1800 , and remained so for at least half a century ( plate 9 ) . Pig iron made by smelting with coke was found unsuitable for ...
... iron . Wrought iron , although now an unimportant commodity , was still the principal metal in use about 1800 , and remained so for at least half a century ( plate 9 ) . Pig iron made by smelting with coke was found unsuitable for ...
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... iron trade , but after 1830 a tremendous growth occurred in every branch of British manufacture , including iron- making . There was a period of unusual prosperity , which culminated in 1835 . Production of iron increased rapidly result ...
... iron trade , but after 1830 a tremendous growth occurred in every branch of British manufacture , including iron- making . There was a period of unusual prosperity , which culminated in 1835 . Production of iron increased rapidly result ...
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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