A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 362
... glass - making patent , claimed to have brought from abroad experts to make Murano crystalline glasses , spectacle glasses , and mirror glasses , the last two being new businesses . He further claimed that he then had 500 Englishmen ...
... glass - making patent , claimed to have brought from abroad experts to make Murano crystalline glasses , spectacle glasses , and mirror glasses , the last two being new businesses . He further claimed that he then had 500 Englishmen ...
Page 365
... Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and ... glass followed , the ball being rolled on CROWN WINDOW - GLASS 365.
... Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and ... glass followed , the ball being rolled on CROWN WINDOW - GLASS 365.
Page 367
... glass yielded by this process were thus severely restricted . After the 1830s crown glass became obsolete except for a few special purposes . A limited amount , for example , continued to be made for the small slides upon which ...
... glass yielded by this process were thus severely restricted . After the 1830s crown glass became obsolete except for a few special purposes . A limited amount , for example , continued to be made for the small slides upon which ...
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