A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... taken out by Ransome in 1808 ; this was for a plough - frame of iron to which standardized replaceable parts could be fitted . This plough was constructed in such a way that it could be taken to pieces with ease and fresh parts ...
... taken out by Ransome in 1808 ; this was for a plough - frame of iron to which standardized replaceable parts could be fitted . This plough was constructed in such a way that it could be taken to pieces with ease and fresh parts ...
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... taken from the crucible in one operation . The first gathering after removal was accord- ingly cooled and a second gathering taken upon it by another assistant . Mean- while the pipe had become too hot to handle with comfort , and so ...
... taken from the crucible in one operation . The first gathering after removal was accord- ingly cooled and a second gathering taken upon it by another assistant . Mean- while the pipe had become too hot to handle with comfort , and so ...
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... taken to a separate pipe . With trapped branches si- phonage is prevented by puff pipes , as at G , taken to the outer face of the wall . Soil and waste pipes are kept on the outside of the wall . were introduced . The first patent for ...
... taken to a separate pipe . With trapped branches si- phonage is prevented by puff pipes , as at G , taken to the outer face of the wall . Soil and waste pipes are kept on the outside of the wall . were introduced . The first patent 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