A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... mechanical parts of these instruments and their general arrangement . Thanks to the improvement in methods , the construction of large instruments made considerable progress in the period between the middle of the eighteenth century and ...
... mechanical parts of these instruments and their general arrangement . Thanks to the improvement in methods , the construction of large instruments made considerable progress in the period between the middle of the eighteenth century and ...
Page 403
... mechanical improvements made during this period in instruments for geodesy . Among these we shall mention only the graphometer , in which the telescope was substituted fairly late for the sighted alidade . This substitution involved a ...
... mechanical improvements made during this period in instruments for geodesy . Among these we shall mention only the graphometer , in which the telescope was substituted fairly late for the sighted alidade . This substitution involved a ...
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... mechanical energy by means of a steam - engine.James Watt , working closely with Black , discovered how to measure mechanical energy , or mechanical work , in terms of the force exerted by a pulling horse lifting weights over a pulley ...
... mechanical energy by means of a steam - engine.James Watt , working closely with Black , discovered how to measure mechanical energy , or mechanical work , in terms of the force exerted by a pulling horse lifting weights over a pulley ...
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