A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... carried out experiments on his estate at Freschines , where in ten years he doubled the yield of wheat and increased by fivefold the number of livestock carried . Priestley noticed that plants confined in an atmosphere rich in carbon ...
... carried out experiments on his estate at Freschines , where in ten years he doubled the yield of wheat and increased by fivefold the number of livestock carried . Priestley noticed that plants confined in an atmosphere rich in carbon ...
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... carried out exten- sive works for the better drainage of their areas . Liverpool obtained parliamentary powers in 1847 , as a result of which the town council was designated the sole governing sanitary authority for the paving ...
... carried out exten- sive works for the better drainage of their areas . Liverpool obtained parliamentary powers in 1847 , as a result of which the town council was designated the sole governing sanitary authority for the paving ...
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... carried out at this time on the continent ( figures 290 , 291 ) . In Paris a detailed survey of all the drains had been made in 1833 , and a considerable amount of drainage - work was carried out , as the following table shows : Total ...
... carried out at this time on the continent ( figures 290 , 291 ) . In Paris a detailed survey of all the drains had been made in 1833 , and a considerable amount of drainage - work was carried out , as the following table shows : Total ...
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