A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... iron weighing about 6 tons . A is the hammer head and B the hammer . The anvil ( C ) was fitted into a cast iron block ( D ) , which Outside Britain the adoption of coke - furnaces proceeded very slowly . The first continental one for iron ...
... iron weighing about 6 tons . A is the hammer head and B the hammer . The anvil ( C ) was fitted into a cast iron block ( D ) , which Outside Britain the adoption of coke - furnaces proceeded very slowly . The first continental one for iron ...
Page 106
... iron . Wrought iron , although now an unimportant commodity , was still the principal metal in use about 1800 , and remained so for at least half a century ( plate 9 ) . Pig iron made by smelting with coke was found unsuitable for ...
... iron . Wrought iron , although now an unimportant commodity , was still the principal metal in use about 1800 , and remained so for at least half a century ( plate 9 ) . Pig iron made by smelting with coke was found unsuitable for ...
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... iron floors . c 1840 . ham gypsum plaster was poured over a mat of reeds supported on floor - joists . The top of the plaster was smoothed to form the surface of the floor , which re- quired no boards . Ironwork . Iron as a structural ...
... iron floors . c 1840 . ham gypsum plaster was poured over a mat of reeds supported on floor - joists . The top of the plaster was smoothed to form the surface of the floor , which re- quired no boards . Ironwork . Iron as a structural ...
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