A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... heat , not only in calorimetry and temperature measurement , but most of all in the rise of the new science of thermodynamics . The foundation of thermodynamics was laid by Sadi Carnot ( 1796-1832 ) in his ' Motive Power of Heat ' [ 16 ] ...
... heat , not only in calorimetry and temperature measurement , but most of all in the rise of the new science of thermodynamics . The foundation of thermodynamics was laid by Sadi Carnot ( 1796-1832 ) in his ' Motive Power of Heat ' [ 16 ] ...
Page 673
... heat - energy quantitatively , and this led to his discovery of latent heat . James Watt began his technical work as mathematical instrument - maker to Glasgow University . His many discussions with Black , and his own scientific ...
... heat - energy quantitatively , and this led to his discovery of latent heat . James Watt began his technical work as mathematical instrument - maker to Glasgow University . His many discussions with Black , and his own scientific ...
Page 680
... heat - energy ( p 673 ) . Black used the rise in temperature of a given mass of water as a measure of the quantity of heat it had taken up . This mode of measurement permitted fairly exact assessment of the quantity of heat - energy ...
... heat - energy ( p 673 ) . Black used the rise in temperature of a given mass of water as a measure of the quantity of heat it had taken up . This mode of measurement permitted fairly exact assessment of the quantity of heat - energy ...
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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