A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page xvi
... Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures ' , Vol . 1 , fig . 137. London , [ 1853–61 ] . D. E. Woodall 71 Smelting lead . After J. PERCY . ' Metallurgy ' , Vol . 3 : ' Metallurgy of Lead ' , fig . 93. London , 1870 . K. F. ...
... Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures ' , Vol . 1 , fig . 137. London , [ 1853–61 ] . D. E. Woodall 71 Smelting lead . After J. PERCY . ' Metallurgy ' , Vol . 3 : ' Metallurgy of Lead ' , fig . 93. London , 1870 . K. F. ...
Page 316
... applied to the weav- ing of more than one kind of textile material . This has been true of the Jacquard machine , but as it was originally specifically applied to the silk - loom it will be dealt with here ; accounts of other ...
... applied to the weav- ing of more than one kind of textile material . This has been true of the Jacquard machine , but as it was originally specifically applied to the silk - loom it will be dealt with here ; accounts of other ...
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... Applied science as a liberator from servitude . The enthusiasm that possessed some of the early technologists sprang from an almost supernatural confidence in the power of applied science to lighten the burdens that weigh down mankind ...
... Applied science as a liberator from servitude . The enthusiasm that possessed some of the early technologists sprang from an almost supernatural confidence in the power of applied science to lighten the burdens that weigh down mankind ...
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