A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... land- owners allowed their tenants to grow crops besides the winter and summer corn . The tenant was free to replace the cereals by flax , weld , rape seed or hemp , at his own risk . ' From this time onwards cole - seed , beans ...
... land- owners allowed their tenants to grow crops besides the winter and summer corn . The tenant was free to replace the cereals by flax , weld , rape seed or hemp , at his own risk . ' From this time onwards cole - seed , beans ...
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... land thus continually cropped , but conditions for growth were improved . If cereals are cultivated in unbroken succession a very heavy crop of weeds appears . The grain - crops do not stifle them , especially when the land is not well ...
... land thus continually cropped , but conditions for growth were improved . If cereals are cultivated in unbroken succession a very heavy crop of weeds appears . The grain - crops do not stifle them , especially when the land is not well ...
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... land , the nineteenth that of heavy land . Light land does not need a great deal of drainage ; heavy land does , and this was one of the problems not finally solved until the invention of the tubular drain - pipe , about 1800 , and of ...
... land , the nineteenth that of heavy land . Light land does not need a great deal of drainage ; heavy land does , and this was one of the problems not finally solved until the invention of the tubular drain - pipe , about 1800 , and of ...
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