A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... Similar work was done on pigs , often with an admixture of Chinese blood . Horses for the plough , the wagon , and the coach , for riding , racing , and the cavalry , were essential in that age . Of these the plough- and cart - horse ...
... Similar work was done on pigs , often with an admixture of Chinese blood . Horses for the plough , the wagon , and the coach , for riding , racing , and the cavalry , were essential in that age . Of these the plough- and cart - horse ...
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... similar machine could be worked by compressed air ; a single- acting pneumatic drill is shown in figure 34. In the United States , Fowle pro- duced a similar steam - operated drill , but the modern prototype , the Ingersoll drill , was ...
... similar machine could be worked by compressed air ; a single- acting pneumatic drill is shown in figure 34. In the United States , Fowle pro- duced a similar steam - operated drill , but the modern prototype , the Ingersoll drill , was ...
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... similar inventions to be made quite independently yet almost simultaneously in widely different places , it seems likely that it was these reports from France that stimulated Lord George Murray and John Gamble to propose schemes for ...
... similar inventions to be made quite independently yet almost simultaneously in widely different places , it seems likely that it was these reports from France that stimulated Lord George Murray and John Gamble to propose schemes for ...
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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