A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... given mass of gas varies inversely as the pressure upon it if the temperature is constant , and J. A. C. Charles ( 1746- 1823 ) —the first man to make an ascent in a balloon filled with hydrogen ( p 255 ) — discovered ( 1787 ) the ...
... given mass of gas varies inversely as the pressure upon it if the temperature is constant , and J. A. C. Charles ( 1746- 1823 ) —the first man to make an ascent in a balloon filled with hydrogen ( p 255 ) — discovered ( 1787 ) the ...
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... given up in favour of oxide of iron till the end of the nineteenth century . Though oxide of iron stripped the sulphur from the free hydrogen sulphide , it left untouched certain . other sulphur compounds , present in small quantities ...
... given up in favour of oxide of iron till the end of the nineteenth century . Though oxide of iron stripped the sulphur from the free hydrogen sulphide , it left untouched certain . other sulphur compounds , present in small quantities ...
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... given traversing motion by a crank , and so to the reel ( K ) . As spindle and flyer revolved , twist was given to the thread , the tightness or hardness being regulated by the size of wheels ( h ) and ( i ) , which were changeable ...
... given traversing motion by a crank , and so to the reel ( K ) . As spindle and flyer revolved , twist was given to the thread , the tightness or hardness being regulated by the size of wheels ( h ) and ( i ) , which were changeable ...
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