A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... necessary for growth , Andrew Ure pro- nounced that children suffered no harm working twelve hours a day in mills lighted by gas . If gas must bear some of the responsibility for the intolerably long hours of labour in the early ...
... necessary for growth , Andrew Ure pro- nounced that children suffered no harm working twelve hours a day in mills lighted by gas . If gas must bear some of the responsibility for the intolerably long hours of labour in the early ...
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... necessary . Subsequently the water was steam - heated , and the expression ' steam - filature ' was evolved . The filaments , collected together from several cocoons to form one group , were taken over a kind of bobbin on their way to ...
... necessary . Subsequently the water was steam - heated , and the expression ' steam - filature ' was evolved . The filaments , collected together from several cocoons to form one group , were taken over a kind of bobbin on their way to ...
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... necessary for the stones to be even with one another . The second bed is to be likewise arranged by hand , layer by layer , and beaten and broken coarsely with a large hammer , so that the stones may wedge together and no empty space ...
... necessary for the stones to be even with one another . The second bed is to be likewise arranged by hand , layer by layer , and beaten and broken coarsely with a large hammer , so that the stones may wedge together and no empty space ...
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 |
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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