A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... materials . In evidence before the commissioners at an excise inquiry in 1831 it was stated that the materials employed in the making of common bottles were sand , soap - makers ' waste , lime , common clay , and ground bricks . For ...
... materials . In evidence before the commissioners at an excise inquiry in 1831 it was stated that the materials employed in the making of common bottles were sand , soap - makers ' waste , lime , common clay , and ground bricks . For ...
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... materials was undertaken by Leonhard Euler ( 1707-83 ) , a Swiss mathematician . His interest lay not so much in the study of the actual materials as in that of curves into which they were bent , which could be mathematically defined ...
... materials was undertaken by Leonhard Euler ( 1707-83 ) , a Swiss mathematician . His interest lay not so much in the study of the actual materials as in that of curves into which they were bent , which could be mathematically defined ...
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... materials , produce large plastic deformations . The behaviour of all materials , whether ductile or brittle , deviates markedly from Hooke's law at loadings far below the ultimate . Most tests made until well into the nineteenth ...
... materials , produce large plastic deformations . The behaviour of all materials , whether ductile or brittle , deviates markedly from Hooke's law at loadings far below the ultimate . Most tests made until well into the nineteenth ...
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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