A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... common type was driven by four horses walking round a central geared wheel from which the drive was transmitted by shaft- century . FIGURE 8 — Winnowing machine . Late eighteenth ing to the thresher . So great were the ad- vantages of ...
... common type was driven by four horses walking round a central geared wheel from which the drive was transmitted by shaft- century . FIGURE 8 — Winnowing machine . Late eighteenth ing to the thresher . So great were the ad- vantages of ...
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... common salt , the development of bleaching - powder STEAM was one of the milestones in the evolution of Britain's chemical economy . Liebig assessed its significance in the following terms : But for this new bleaching process it would ...
... common salt , the development of bleaching - powder STEAM was one of the milestones in the evolution of Britain's chemical economy . Liebig assessed its significance in the following terms : But for this new bleaching process it would ...
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... common term for a small three - masted ship , and was used by Shakespeare and Hakluyt in this sense . Cat was a word of Scandinavian origin for a type of hull , common to the maritime countries of northern Europe , having a bluff bow ...
... common term for a small three - masted ship , and was used by Shakespeare and Hakluyt in this sense . Cat was a word of Scandinavian origin for a type of hull , common to the maritime countries of northern Europe , having a bluff bow ...
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