A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... established places . The last quarter of the century saw salt - glazed stoneware , in the produc- tion of which Staffordshire had been pre - eminent , give way to fluid - glazed cream - coloured ware . The production of stoneware did ...
... established places . The last quarter of the century saw salt - glazed stoneware , in the produc- tion of which Staffordshire had been pre - eminent , give way to fluid - glazed cream - coloured ware . The production of stoneware did ...
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... established was the London Bridge waterworks in 1581 ; by means of pumps driven by water - wheels , water was raised from the Thames at London Bridge ( figure 277 ) . The works when fully established are stated to have been capable of ...
... established was the London Bridge waterworks in 1581 ; by means of pumps driven by water - wheels , water was raised from the Thames at London Bridge ( figure 277 ) . The works when fully established are stated to have been capable of ...
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... established , and a corrected outline of the country could be laid down . La Con- noissance des temps , an ephemeris published by J. D. Cassini from 1679 , recorded the gradual increase in the number of positions accurately fixed : in ...
... established , and a corrected outline of the country could be laid down . La Con- noissance des temps , an ephemeris published by J. D. Cassini from 1679 , recorded the gradual increase in the number of positions accurately fixed : in ...
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