A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... began to grow such things as buckwheat on the fallow because they did not like to see land not bearing a crop , but the practice was not widely adopted . Maize began to take the place of rye in the food of the poor in the early ...
... began to grow such things as buckwheat on the fallow because they did not like to see land not bearing a crop , but the practice was not widely adopted . Maize began to take the place of rye in the food of the poor in the early ...
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... began to take place . These had gained momentum by the middle of the eighteenth century . Outside Britain the revolu- tion was far from complete even by 1880 ; thus Germany cannot be said even to have entered the industrial stage before ...
... began to take place . These had gained momentum by the middle of the eighteenth century . Outside Britain the revolu- tion was far from complete even by 1880 ; thus Germany cannot be said even to have entered the industrial stage before ...
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... began in 1792 at a factory near Lan- caster , and subsequently a number of other concerns were started both in Lanca- shire and in Yorkshire . In one or two instances existing cotton - spinning mills began spinning waste silk . These ...
... began in 1792 at a factory near Lan- caster , and subsequently a number of other concerns were started both in Lanca- shire and in Yorkshire . In one or two instances existing cotton - spinning mills began spinning waste silk . These ...
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