A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... light lands of Norfolk and Suffolk and the sandy lands across the sea . Merchants and traders must have discussed farming , and it is not unlikely that the English light - land farmers learned something of the Flemish methods in this ...
... light lands of Norfolk and Suffolk and the sandy lands across the sea . Merchants and traders must have discussed farming , and it is not unlikely that the English light - land farmers learned something of the Flemish methods in this ...
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... Light and Heat Company , renamed The Gas Light and Coke Company , gained its charter early in 1812 . At the start , the chartered company was handicapped by the erratic conduct of its business by Winsor , who was neither administrator ...
... Light and Heat Company , renamed The Gas Light and Coke Company , gained its charter early in 1812 . At the start , the chartered company was handicapped by the erratic conduct of its business by Winsor , who was neither administrator ...
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... light undertaking in the absence of cheap transport . So obvious , however , were the advantages of this white - burning clay that it was soon incorporated in a mixture with fine grit and sand , and a light coloured stoneware was made ...
... light undertaking in the absence of cheap transport . So obvious , however , were the advantages of this white - burning clay that it was soon incorporated in a mixture with fine grit and sand , and a light coloured stoneware was made ...
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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