A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 498
... built in masonry and was 118 ft high . Some masonry dams for irrigation reservoirs were built in Spain in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries . An example is the old Puentes dam , constructed in 1785-91 across the river Guadalentin ...
... built in masonry and was 118 ft high . Some masonry dams for irrigation reservoirs were built in Spain in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries . An example is the old Puentes dam , constructed in 1785-91 across the river Guadalentin ...
Page 592
... built on the Clyde at Greenock were the Ariel and Sir Lancelot , both launched in 1865 and built to the same lines . Their length was 197 ft and their beam 33 ft 9 in . The lower masts of the Ariel were of iron . They were extreme ...
... built on the Clyde at Greenock were the Ariel and Sir Lancelot , both launched in 1865 and built to the same lines . Their length was 197 ft and their beam 33 ft 9 in . The lower masts of the Ariel were of iron . They were extreme ...
Page 594
... built of steel at Hamburg in 1902 , was 433 ft long overall with a beam of 53 ft , and carried a sail area of 60 000 ... built ( figure 325 ) . HAMMAM .... HIMANZANALES PROMEN FIGURE 325 - Five - masted ship Preussen , the only five ...
... built of steel at Hamburg in 1902 , was 433 ft long overall with a beam of 53 ft , and carried a sail area of 60 000 ... built ( figure 325 ) . HAMMAM .... HIMANZANALES PROMEN FIGURE 325 - Five - masted ship Preussen , the only five ...
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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