A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... materials over considerable distances even before the advent of railways . Its products were sold by English traders in all accessible parts of the world . Wherever there was clay there were potters , and from the beginning of the ...
... materials over considerable distances even before the advent of railways . Its products were sold by English traders in all accessible parts of the world . Wherever there was clay there were potters , and from the beginning of the ...
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... materials was undertaken by Leonhard Euler ( 1707-83 ) , a Swiss mathematician . His interest lay not so much in the study of the actual materials as in that of curves into which they were bent , which could be mathematically defined ...
... materials was undertaken by Leonhard Euler ( 1707-83 ) , a Swiss mathematician . His interest lay not so much in the study of the actual materials as in that of curves into which they were bent , which could be mathematically defined ...
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... materials , produce large plastic deformations . The behaviour of all materials , whether ductile or brittle , deviates markedly from Hooke's law at loadings far below the ultimate . Most tests made until well into the nineteenth ...
... materials , produce large plastic deformations . The behaviour of all materials , whether ductile or brittle , deviates markedly from Hooke's law at loadings far below the ultimate . Most tests made until well into the nineteenth ...
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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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