A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... tion with the cereals there were two advantages . The roots had to be hoed to cut out competing weeds until the crop had developed enough leaf to smother them . This destroyed unwanted natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine ...
... tion with the cereals there were two advantages . The roots had to be hoed to cut out competing weeds until the crop had developed enough leaf to smother them . This destroyed unwanted natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine ...
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... tion of Palladio ( 1715 ) and acted as patron to a number of promising young men 10 5 0 10 20 30 Feet FIGURE 265 - Roof of St Paul's Church , Covent Garden . ( Above ) 1636 ; ( below ) 1796 . such as Colin Campbell , William Kent , and ...
... tion of Palladio ( 1715 ) and acted as patron to a number of promising young men 10 5 0 10 20 30 Feet FIGURE 265 - Roof of St Paul's Church , Covent Garden . ( Above ) 1636 ; ( below ) 1796 . such as Colin Campbell , William Kent , and ...
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... tion was undertaken is of some interest . Further developments in that direc- tion , combined with the studies of the elastic behaviour of materials by members of the Académie des Sciences and the Ponts et Chaussées were in due course ...
... tion was undertaken is of some interest . Further developments in that direc- tion , combined with the studies of the elastic behaviour of materials by members of the Académie des Sciences and the Ponts et Chaussées were in due course ...
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