A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... Mineral map of the United Kingdom , 1851 . During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there was great ... mineral riches of the western States ; they were followed by British and American engineers , who developed the ...
... Mineral map of the United Kingdom , 1851 . During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there was great ... mineral riches of the western States ; they were followed by British and American engineers , who developed the ...
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... mineral deposit actually shows on the surface of the land ; ( ii ) discovery of deposits that do not show on the surface but whose possible existence can be deduced from local geological evidence . Their actual presence must be proved ...
... mineral deposit actually shows on the surface of the land ; ( ii ) discovery of deposits that do not show on the surface but whose possible existence can be deduced from local geological evidence . Their actual presence must be proved ...
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... mineral vein . II . PROSPECTING BY BORING Surface boring tools are used for many reasons , such as to ascertain the nature of a mineral deposit , its depth from the surface , thickness , angle of dip , and direction of strike , or to ...
... mineral vein . II . PROSPECTING BY BORING Surface boring tools are used for many reasons , such as to ascertain the nature of a mineral deposit , its depth from the surface , thickness , angle of dip , and direction of strike , or to ...
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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