A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... cylinder , which had a copper top for ease of con- nexion . The piston was packed with hemp rope , and three water - jets were used for condensing because of the large size of the cylinder . From another source we learn that the cylinder ...
... cylinder , which had a copper top for ease of con- nexion . The piston was packed with hemp rope , and three water - jets were used for condensing because of the large size of the cylinder . From another source we learn that the cylinder ...
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... Cylinder should be maintained always as hot as the steam which entered it ; and secondly , that when the steam was condensed , the water of which it was composed , and the injection itself , should be cooled down to 100 ° , or lower ...
... Cylinder should be maintained always as hot as the steam which entered it ; and secondly , that when the steam was condensed , the water of which it was composed , and the injection itself , should be cooled down to 100 ° , or lower ...
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... cylinder . The close fitting of the piston in the cylinder , which did not so greatly matter in the Newcomen engine , was essential to the proper FIGURE 238 - Machine for cutting clock - wheels , 1789. The teeth are cut by a rotary ...
... cylinder . The close fitting of the piston in the cylinder , which did not so greatly matter in the Newcomen engine , was essential to the proper FIGURE 238 - Machine for cutting clock - wheels , 1789. The teeth are cut by a rotary ...
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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