A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 186
... beam had to be replaced by some mecha- nism that would transmit a force in either direction . Watt's first notion was to extend the piston - rod by a rack which would gear with a toothed arc on the end of the beam . This was a clumsy ...
... beam had to be replaced by some mecha- nism that would transmit a force in either direction . Watt's first notion was to extend the piston - rod by a rack which would gear with a toothed arc on the end of the beam . This was a clumsy ...
Page 196
... beam of some kind was essential to a satisfactory engine was deeply rooted . Stationary practice was therefore followed in marine work , though it was soon modified by replacing the overhead beam by a pair of lower beams , one on each ...
... beam of some kind was essential to a satisfactory engine was deeply rooted . Stationary practice was therefore followed in marine work , though it was soon modified by replacing the overhead beam by a pair of lower beams , one on each ...
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... beam , of which the main function was no longer to act as a beam but to tie in the feet of the arch . Nicholson worked out the timber - content of the two roofs ( the old 298 cu ft , the new 198 cu ft ) , thereby demonstrating the ...
... beam , of which the main function was no longer to act as a beam but to tie in the feet of the arch . Nicholson worked out the timber - content of the two roofs ( the old 298 cu ft , the new 198 cu ft ) , thereby demonstrating 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