A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... Industrial Revolution ' , the title for a development often described as starting in the early eighteenth century and extending through much of the nineteenth [ 1 ] . It was a slow movement , but wrought changes so profound in their ...
... Industrial Revolution ' , the title for a development often described as starting in the early eighteenth century and extending through much of the nineteenth [ 1 ] . It was a slow movement , but wrought changes so profound in their ...
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... industrial revolution by 1800 , but certainly not the only one ; much of the manufacturing still took place in workshops , and the part of factories in the industrial revolution has been overstressed . II . THE EARLIER COMPETITORS OF ...
... industrial revolution by 1800 , but certainly not the only one ; much of the manufacturing still took place in workshops , and the part of factories in the industrial revolution has been overstressed . II . THE EARLIER COMPETITORS OF ...
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... the only furnace technique that industry of the industrial revolution inherited . The manufac- ture of glass and pottery ( though for centuries neither THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: INTERACTION WITH THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by A and N L CLOW.
... the only furnace technique that industry of the industrial revolution inherited . The manufac- ture of glass and pottery ( though for centuries neither THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY: INTERACTION WITH THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION by A and N L CLOW.
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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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