A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... mechanical means . Throughout the British Isles hay was made entirely with hand tools before 1850 , and methods were not revolutionized until the latter half of the nineteenth century . The earliest mechanical invention in connexion ...
... mechanical means . Throughout the British Isles hay was made entirely with hand tools before 1850 , and methods were not revolutionized until the latter half of the nineteenth century . The earliest mechanical invention in connexion ...
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... mechanical parts of these instruments and their general arrangement . Thanks to the improvement in methods , the construction of large instruments made considerable progress in the period between the middle of the eighteenth century and ...
... mechanical parts of these instruments and their general arrangement . Thanks to the improvement in methods , the construction of large instruments made considerable progress in the period between the middle of the eighteenth century and ...
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... mechanical improvements made during this period in instruments for geodesy . Among these we shall mention only the graphometer , in which the telescope was substituted fairly late for the sighted alidade . This substitution involved a ...
... mechanical improvements made during this period in instruments for geodesy . Among these we shall mention only the graphometer , in which the telescope was substituted fairly late for the sighted alidade . This substitution involved a ...
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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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