A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... bridge was a novelty in British bridge - building . The largest of the nine spans was 100 ft . The bases of the piers were in caissons , the bottoms of which rested on piles . The Ponts et Chaussées had developed the form of contract ...
... bridge was a novelty in British bridge - building . The largest of the nine spans was 100 ft . The bases of the piers were in caissons , the bottoms of which rested on piles . The Ponts et Chaussées had developed the form of contract ...
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Charles Joseph Singer. While Southwark bridge was still under construction several suspension bridges were erected in ... bridge , of 580 ft span , to carry the Holyhead road across the Menai Straits . FIGURE 256 - Telford's Menai bridge ...
Charles Joseph Singer. While Southwark bridge was still under construction several suspension bridges were erected in ... bridge , of 580 ft span , to carry the Holyhead road across the Menai Straits . FIGURE 256 - Telford's Menai bridge ...
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... bridge with an open frame comprising horizontal top and bottom booms , joined by diagonal members set at 60 ° so as to form in elevation a chain of equi- lateral triangles . In 1848 Captain James Warren and W. T. Manzoni took out a ...
... bridge with an open frame comprising horizontal top and bottom booms , joined by diagonal members set at 60 ° so as to form in elevation a chain of equi- lateral triangles . In 1848 Captain James Warren and W. T. Manzoni took out a ...
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