A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 556
... canal incorporated two tunnels . The longer , or Grand souter- rain de Riqueval , was 3 miles long , and when in due course the canal was opened no boatman dared to enter it . In desperation the authorities offered freedom from all canal ...
... canal incorporated two tunnels . The longer , or Grand souter- rain de Riqueval , was 3 miles long , and when in due course the canal was opened no boatman dared to enter it . In desperation the authorities offered freedom from all canal ...
Page 557
... canal North Sea COSTEND Nieuport Zeebrugge Sluis Roulers BYpres WALCHEREN SASSEVAART CANAL Sas - van- BRUGES Ghent BRUGES - GHENT CANAL Courtrai 10 25 Miles R. Scheldt BEVELAND . AND ... canal. CANALS : INLAND WATERWAYS OUTSIDE BRITAIN 557.
... canal North Sea COSTEND Nieuport Zeebrugge Sluis Roulers BYpres WALCHEREN SASSEVAART CANAL Sas - van- BRUGES Ghent BRUGES - GHENT CANAL Courtrai 10 25 Miles R. Scheldt BEVELAND . AND ... canal. CANALS : INLAND WATERWAYS OUTSIDE BRITAIN 557.
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... Canal de Bourgogne , 556 . Canal de Bruges à Ghent , 559 . Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise , 556 . Canal de Miribel , 550 . Canal du Centre , 556 . Canal du Nord , 556 . Canal Lateral à l'Oise , 555 . Castille , 554 . Charleroi - Brussels ...
... Canal de Bourgogne , 556 . Canal de Bruges à Ghent , 559 . Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise , 556 . Canal de Miribel , 550 . Canal du Centre , 556 . Canal du Nord , 556 . Canal Lateral à l'Oise , 555 . Castille , 554 . Charleroi - Brussels ...
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