A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... remained feudal also remained technologically backward . Editorially , the tremendous increase in the pace of discovery and application has presented great problems of selection . Our first volume vi PREFACE.
... remained feudal also remained technologically backward . Editorially , the tremendous increase in the pace of discovery and application has presented great problems of selection . Our first volume vi PREFACE.
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... remained . Denmark and Schleswig - Holstein were handicapped in the eighteenth century by the heavy incidence of ... remained rather primitive . The implements were crude and rather inefficient , but cereals and pulse were cultivated ...
... remained . Denmark and Schleswig - Holstein were handicapped in the eighteenth century by the heavy incidence of ... remained rather primitive . The implements were crude and rather inefficient , but cereals and pulse were cultivated ...
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... remained the statute under which these works were carried out until the passing of the Metropolis Management Act , 1855. Among other things , the former Act required ' scavengers , rakers , or cleansers ' to carry away at their own ...
... remained the statute under which these works were carried out until the passing of the Metropolis Management Act , 1855. Among other things , the former Act required ' scavengers , rakers , or cleansers ' to carry away at their own ...
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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