A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... crops in succession , followed by a series of catch - crops to feed the sheep . The advantages of the system are obvious . Instead of having one - third of the arable , as in the open fields , without a crop of any kind , all the fields ...
... crops in succession , followed by a series of catch - crops to feed the sheep . The advantages of the system are obvious . Instead of having one - third of the arable , as in the open fields , without a crop of any kind , all the fields ...
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... crops . These formed part of an improved three - field system in which part of the fallow field — a half or three- quarters was devoted to fodder crops , red clover , potatoes , roots , and pulse , though a part was preserved as fallow ...
... crops . These formed part of an improved three - field system in which part of the fallow field — a half or three- quarters was devoted to fodder crops , red clover , potatoes , roots , and pulse , though a part was preserved as fallow ...
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... crops were introduced about 1750 , and there was good pasture in the valley of the Auge . Here cider was beginning to take the place of wine as the common drink . Picardy had absorbed some of the Flemish husbandry and grew successful crops ...
... crops were introduced about 1750 , and there was good pasture in the valley of the Auge . Here cider was beginning to take the place of wine as the common drink . Picardy had absorbed some of the Flemish husbandry and grew successful crops ...
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