A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... farmers to turn to arable , but the dairy industry nevertheless remained the main source of income . Fat cattle for slaughter were also exported . The potato became important and madder was extensively grown . It was the ley farming ...
... farmers to turn to arable , but the dairy industry nevertheless remained the main source of income . Fat cattle for slaughter were also exported . The potato became important and madder was extensively grown . It was the ley farming ...
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... farming made in the late eighteenth century was achieved by practical landowners and farmers , but it could not have been made without propaganda . Arthur Young ( 1741-1820 ) was the untiring advo- cate of new methods through nearly ...
... farming made in the late eighteenth century was achieved by practical landowners and farmers , but it could not have been made without propaganda . Arthur Young ( 1741-1820 ) was the untiring advo- cate of new methods through nearly ...
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... farming of various districts and the improvements which might be of service to others were described by William Marshall in his ' Rural Economy ' series , and in the county reports undertaken by surveyors appointed by the Board of ...
... farming of various districts and the improvements which might be of service to others were described by William Marshall in his ' Rural Economy ' series , and in the county reports undertaken by surveyors appointed by the Board of ...
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