A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... fire - setting was practised . It was in use in Saxony , Hungary , and the Harz during the latter half of the eighteenth century . In this process horizontal layers of billets of firewood , disposed crosswise one above the other , were ...
... fire - setting was practised . It was in use in Saxony , Hungary , and the Harz during the latter half of the eighteenth century . In this process horizontal layers of billets of firewood , disposed crosswise one above the other , were ...
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... fire- damp and air . Steam - jets were also tried but were not satisfactory . Extracted fire - damp was often burned at the surface ( plate 6A ) . The first known mechanical ventilator was an air - pump used by Buddle at Hebburn ...
... fire- damp and air . Steam - jets were also tried but were not satisfactory . Extracted fire - damp was often burned at the surface ( plate 6A ) . The first known mechanical ventilator was an air - pump used by Buddle at Hebburn ...
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... fire , as Boyle did ; and lastly that if one then reweighs the same vessel after the calcination , before opening it , its weight ought to be found to have increased by the whole of the quantity of the matter of fire which entered ...
... fire , as Boyle did ; and lastly that if one then reweighs the same vessel after the calcination , before opening it , its weight ought to be found to have increased by the whole of the quantity of the matter of fire which entered ...
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