A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 118
... metal industries were not greatly affected by them for a considerable time . A writer in 1828 said that a number of the new metals were little better than hypothetical assumptions ; some of them , such as potassium and sodium , were so ...
... metal industries were not greatly affected by them for a considerable time . A writer in 1828 said that a number of the new metals were little better than hypothetical assumptions ; some of them , such as potassium and sodium , were so ...
Page 120
... metals . Bismuth was the easiest to obtain . This was done by liquation ; that is , by heating the ore and allowing the liquid metal to run off into a receiver . Normally , cast iron retorts placed obliquely in a furnace were charged ...
... metals . Bismuth was the easiest to obtain . This was done by liquation ; that is , by heating the ore and allowing the liquid metal to run off into a receiver . Normally , cast iron retorts placed obliquely in a furnace were charged ...
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... metal weighed more than the metal from which it was obtained . Boyle , to whom this fact was well known , ascribed it to the passage of heat , which he regarded as a material sub- stance , through the walls of the vessel from the fire ...
... metal weighed more than the metal from which it was obtained . Boyle , to whom this fact was well known , ascribed it to the passage of heat , which he regarded as a material sub- stance , through the walls of the vessel from the fire ...
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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