A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... became popular . It was susceptible to changes in gas - pressure and was inclined to smoke when badly adjusted ; it was expensive ; and its glass chimney made it difficult to maintain ( figure 147 ) . By 1823 three rival chartered ...
... became popular . It was susceptible to changes in gas - pressure and was inclined to smoke when badly adjusted ; it was expensive ; and its glass chimney made it difficult to maintain ( figure 147 ) . By 1823 three rival chartered ...
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... became evident that the time was ripe for advances in glass - making technology , and attention was therefore turned in that direction . A discovery of prime significance in connexion with the manufacture of optical glass was made by ...
... became evident that the time was ripe for advances in glass - making technology , and attention was therefore turned in that direction . A discovery of prime significance in connexion with the manufacture of optical glass was made by ...
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... became universal . Maudslay gave much attention to the initial formation of accurate screw- threads . In the method finally adopted a hard - wood cylinder was rotated in a suitable holder against a crescent - shaped knife held obliquely ...
... became universal . Maudslay gave much attention to the initial formation of accurate screw- threads . In the method finally adopted a hard - wood cylinder was rotated in a suitable holder against a crescent - shaped knife held obliquely ...
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