A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... copper oxide . This gave metal 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 ...
... copper oxide . This gave metal 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 ...
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Charles Joseph Singer. with 70 per cent copper . As a result large quantities of copper - rich slag were formed , which was the reason why this part of the process was normally stopped at about 35 per cent copper . Vivian smelted the ...
Charles Joseph Singer. with 70 per cent copper . As a result large quantities of copper - rich slag were formed , which was the reason why this part of the process was normally stopped at about 35 per cent copper . Vivian smelted the ...
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... copper to 2 of zinc patented in 1832 by G. F. Muntz of Birmingham ) , copper sheet was still used in the Royal Navy long after this time . Both kinds of sheet often corroded rapidly and had to be replaced at frequent intervals . Copper ...
... copper to 2 of zinc patented in 1832 by G. F. Muntz of Birmingham ) , copper sheet was still used in the Royal Navy long after this time . Both kinds of sheet often corroded rapidly and had to be replaced at frequent intervals . Copper ...
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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