A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... ( figure 127 ) , is of great importance throughout the whole of the chemical industry , as well as in the technical production of such substances as sugar ( vol III , PP 7-8 ) . From our knowledge of the history of gunpowder it is clear ...
... ( figure 127 ) , is of great importance throughout the whole of the chemical industry , as well as in the technical production of such substances as sugar ( vol III , PP 7-8 ) . From our knowledge of the history of gunpowder it is clear ...
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... ( figure 249 ) . Perronet's arch - centres were built up as shown in figure 250. They comprised in effect a multiple - ribbed timber arch to carry the thrust to the abutments or piers of permanent construction . The radial members were ...
... ( figure 249 ) . Perronet's arch - centres were built up as shown in figure 250. They comprised in effect a multiple - ribbed timber arch to carry the thrust to the abutments or piers of permanent construction . The radial members were ...
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... ( figure 288 ) shows the Fleet river in 1844 ; the chutes discharging from the houses into the river may be clearly ... Figure 289 shows a section of the low - level sewer on the north bank of the Thames . From Westminster bridge to ...
... ( figure 288 ) shows the Fleet river in 1844 ; the chutes discharging from the houses into the river may be clearly ... Figure 289 shows a section of the low - level sewer on the north bank of the Thames . From Westminster bridge to ...
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