A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... containing about 75 per cent copper , and ' metal slag ' . ( v ) The metal was run out of the furnace and made into pigs ( figure 76 ) , FIGURE 75 - Side view of melting furnace for sulphide ores of copper , showing water tank . The ...
... containing about 75 per cent copper , and ' metal slag ' . ( v ) The metal was run out of the furnace and made into pigs ( figure 76 ) , FIGURE 75 - Side view of melting furnace for sulphide ores of copper , showing water tank . The ...
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... contain only constructional detail . The only early attempts at the calculation of windmill capacities concern marsh ... contains accurate measurements of wind - velocities . In 1759 John Smeaton reported [ 12 ] on his experiments on ...
... contain only constructional detail . The only early attempts at the calculation of windmill capacities concern marsh ... contains accurate measurements of wind - velocities . In 1759 John Smeaton reported [ 12 ] on his experiments on ...
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... containing more of the dilute acid . Bubbles of a gas ( hydrogen ) rose to the top of the apparatus , displacing the acid and soon filling the flask . Here was the germ of that invaluable device so familiar in the elementary laboratory ...
... containing more of the dilute acid . Bubbles of a gas ( hydrogen ) rose to the top of the apparatus , displacing the acid and soon filling the flask . Here was the germ of that invaluable device so familiar in the elementary laboratory ...
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