A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... early winding - machine , in which the skeins of silk , mounted on swifts ( light revolving frames ) AA , were transferred to the bobbins BB . Generally the machines were much longer than the one shown . Figure 170 shows a simple form ...
... early winding - machine , in which the skeins of silk , mounted on swifts ( light revolving frames ) AA , were transferred to the bobbins BB . Generally the machines were much longer than the one shown . Figure 170 shows a simple form ...
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... ( early nineteenth century ) , manufacturer of sulphuric acid , 245 . Beaumont , J. B. A. L. L. Élie de ( 1798-1874 ) ... early nineteenth century ) , French inventor of textile - machinery , 302 . Bickford , William , of Tuckingmill ...
... ( early nineteenth century ) , manufacturer of sulphuric acid , 245 . Beaumont , J. B. A. L. L. Élie de ( 1798-1874 ) ... early nineteenth century ) , French inventor of textile - machinery , 302 . Bickford , William , of Tuckingmill ...
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... ( early nineteenth century ) , clock - maker , 414 . Jacobssen , Jacob , of Haarlem ( c 1622 ) , patentee for horse - mill on chain - dredger , 639 . Jacquard , J. M. ( 1752-1834 ) , inventor of Jacquard loom , 317-19 . Jacquier ( c 1742 ) ...
... ( early nineteenth century ) , clock - maker , 414 . Jacobssen , Jacob , of Haarlem ( c 1622 ) , patentee for horse - mill on chain - dredger , 639 . Jacquard , J. M. ( 1752-1834 ) , inventor of Jacquard loom , 317-19 . Jacquier ( c 1742 ) ...
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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