A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... Agriculture had ceased to exist in 1821 , though private agricultural associations , great and small , had survived . Prominent amongst them were the Bath and West of England Society , the Highland and Agricultural Society , and the ...
... Agriculture had ceased to exist in 1821 , though private agricultural associations , great and small , had survived . Prominent amongst them were the Bath and West of England Society , the Highland and Agricultural Society , and the ...
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... Agricultural Chemistry ' for the Board of Agriculture were published in book form ( 1813 ) . But the Board was at that time already in a decline , and was dissolved in 1821. A beginning had , however , been made towards formal agricultural ...
... Agricultural Chemistry ' for the Board of Agriculture were published in book form ( 1813 ) . But the Board was at that time already in a decline , and was dissolved in 1821. A beginning had , however , been made towards formal agricultural ...
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... agriculture all over western Europe . In every country the foundations of centres of agricultural research and education were being laid — many by voluntary effort , some with government assistance — and the way lay open to the ...
... agriculture all over western Europe . In every country the foundations of centres of agricultural research and education were being laid — many by voluntary effort , some with government assistance — and the way lay open to the ...
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 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