A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... developed elsewhere . Tarelli , a Venetian , recommended the cultivation of fodder crops in the sixteenth century , and in the eighteenth a four - course rotation was said to be already old - established in part of Italy . This was ...
... developed elsewhere . Tarelli , a Venetian , recommended the cultivation of fodder crops in the sixteenth century , and in the eighteenth a four - course rotation was said to be already old - established in part of Italy . This was ...
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... developed ; this is technically known as the longwall method ( figure 47 ) . When the mines were shallow , or where the LEVEL coal was thick , clean , and strong , this system was not used , and it did not come into common use elsewhere ...
... developed ; this is technically known as the longwall method ( figure 47 ) . When the mines were shallow , or where the LEVEL coal was thick , clean , and strong , this system was not used , and it did not come into common use elsewhere ...
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... developed as it did without gas - light . So great was the impetus created by the rapid success of the early companies , that England became responsible for many of the installations on the continent of Europe and in America . An ...
... developed as it did without gas - light . So great was the impetus created by the rapid success of the early companies , that England became responsible for many of the installations on the continent of Europe and in America . An ...
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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