A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 211
... driving by bevel cogs the wal- lower or horizontal wheel B on the main vertical shaft C. The latter is of apple wood , about 18 inches in diameter , and is supported in a bearing on the ground floor ; it extends upwards through the ...
... driving by bevel cogs the wal- lower or horizontal wheel B on the main vertical shaft C. The latter is of apple wood , about 18 inches in diameter , and is supported in a bearing on the ground floor ; it extends upwards through the ...
Page 289
... driving belts ; ( c ) driving shaft ; ( D ) scroll pulley for inward journey ; ( E ) drum driving spindles ; ( F ) toothed quadrant ; ( G ) nut sliding on radial arm from which chain is attached to carriage ; ( H ) wheel driving drum ...
... driving belts ; ( c ) driving shaft ; ( D ) scroll pulley for inward journey ; ( E ) drum driving spindles ; ( F ) toothed quadrant ; ( G ) nut sliding on radial arm from which chain is attached to carriage ; ( H ) wheel driving drum ...
Page 301
... driving the batten while the second , known as the tappet - shaft , drove both the treadles for raising the healds ... driving wheel ( B ) on tappet or wiper shaft ( C ) ; ( DD ) tappets or excentric wheels working on treadle levers ( EE ) ...
... driving the batten while the second , known as the tappet - shaft , drove both the treadles for raising the healds ... driving wheel ( B ) on tappet or wiper shaft ( C ) ; ( DD ) tappets or excentric wheels working on treadle levers ( EE ) ...
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