A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... Plate Glass Com- pany — as it was known after reincorporation in 1798 - made a trial of cast iron , although it was hard to obtain an iron plate of the dimensions required . They succeeded in casting one 15 ft long by FIGURE 202 - Some ...
... Plate Glass Com- pany — as it was known after reincorporation in 1798 - made a trial of cast iron , although it was hard to obtain an iron plate of the dimensions required . They succeeded in casting one 15 ft long by FIGURE 202 - Some ...
Page 392
... plate . The Duc de Chaulnes established empirically the correspondence between the number of turns of the crank and the angle of rotation of his plate . On the latter he traced a division by the ordinary method , but instead of using ...
... plate . The Duc de Chaulnes established empirically the correspondence between the number of turns of the crank and the angle of rotation of his plate . On the latter he traced a division by the ordinary method , but instead of using ...
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... plate 22 B. Shapers , 428 , 430 , plate 26 B. Sheffield plate , 130 . Shellac , 133 , 163 . Ships and ship - building : block - making , 581-2 . cables , 580 . chain anchor - cable , 585 . designs of ships , 577-8 , 584 . East India ...
... plate 22 B. Shapers , 428 , 430 , plate 26 B. Sheffield plate , 130 . Shellac , 133 , 163 . Ships and ship - building : block - making , 581-2 . cables , 580 . chain anchor - cable , 585 . designs of ships , 577-8 , 584 . East India ...
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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