A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... followed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century . One was the true alternate husbandry of straw crop - green crop regularly , or nearly regu- larly . The other was a type of convertible husbandry : some years of cropping with ...
... followed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century . One was the true alternate husbandry of straw crop - green crop regularly , or nearly regu- larly . The other was a type of convertible husbandry : some years of cropping with ...
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... followed . It was general from the south , on the central massif , in Poitou , and even farther to the north , from Strasbourg to Wissembourg , in Franche - Comté , and in Brittany . More to the north the three- course system - winter ...
... followed . It was general from the south , on the central massif , in Poitou , and even farther to the north , from Strasbourg to Wissembourg , in Franche - Comté , and in Brittany . More to the north the three- course system - winter ...
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... followed that of land - survey . The sea - atlas Le Neptune françois , published in Paris in 1693 , introduced a number of innovations in its charts of western Europe . They were drawn on the Mercator projection ( ' cartes réduites ...
... followed that of land - survey . The sea - atlas Le Neptune françois , published in Paris in 1693 , introduced a number of innovations in its charts of western Europe . They were drawn on the Mercator projection ( ' cartes réduites ...
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