A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 83
Page 200
... mill pond were sometimes included in the rent . The feudal law of milling soke gave the lords the sole right of building and working mills on their estates . Peasants were theoretically compelled , according to the right of multure , to ...
... mill pond were sometimes included in the rent . The feudal law of milling soke gave the lords the sole right of building and working mills on their estates . Peasants were theoretically compelled , according to the right of multure , to ...
Page 209
... mill for which the annual rental was 5s . It is not improbable that Stratford Mill was built on the site of this ancient Saxon mill . During the reign of Edward V , the manor passed out of the Tilly family and had a succession of ...
... mill for which the annual rental was 5s . It is not improbable that Stratford Mill was built on the site of this ancient Saxon mill . During the reign of Edward V , the manor passed out of the Tilly family and had a succession of ...
Page 212
... mill to mill and lived there until each job was finished . Plate II B shows another old mill for grinding corn . This was Coldron Mill at Spelsbury , Oxfordshire , erected c 1800 and demolished in 1937 . BIBLIOGRAPHY AGRICOLA , G. De re ...
... mill to mill and lived there until each job was finished . Plate II B shows another old mill for grinding corn . This was Coldron Mill at Spelsbury , Oxfordshire , erected c 1800 and demolished in 1937 . BIBLIOGRAPHY AGRICOLA , G. De re ...
Contents
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 |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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