A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... Britain was then essentially an agricultural and mercantile nation . Napoleon could refer to England as ' a nation of shopkeepers ' , but by 1815 Britain , and Britain alone , was so far industrialized as to deserve the title of the ...
... Britain was then essentially an agricultural and mercantile nation . Napoleon could refer to England as ' a nation of shopkeepers ' , but by 1815 Britain , and Britain alone , was so far industrialized as to deserve the title of the ...
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... Britain towards the end of the century ; Britain then had the materials for manufacture , but was nevertheless completely dependent upon import from Germany . In Britain , tinplate was first successfully manufactured at Pontypool ...
... Britain towards the end of the century ; Britain then had the materials for manufacture , but was nevertheless completely dependent upon import from Germany . In Britain , tinplate was first successfully manufactured at Pontypool ...
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... Britain was begun , the first sheet for Scotland appearing in 1843 and for England in 1846. These 6 - in maps of Great Britain , like those of Ireland , were issued as ' county maps ' , each on its separate central meridian . The ...
... Britain was begun , the first sheet for Scotland appearing in 1843 and for England in 1846. These 6 - in maps of Great Britain , like those of Ireland , were issued as ' county maps ' , each on its separate central meridian . The ...
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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 fallow farming figure fish France French furnace Germany glass heat horizontal 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 pipe piston plate practice produced pump river road rollers rotation Rotherham plough salt 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