A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 354
... Moulding not only called for makers of moulds , but in time caused the ' flat hollow - ware presses ' ( figure 192 ) to outnumber the traditional ' throwers ' . Apart from other advantages , the use of moulds enabled the potters of the ...
... Moulding not only called for makers of moulds , but in time caused the ' flat hollow - ware presses ' ( figure 192 ) to outnumber the traditional ' throwers ' . Apart from other advantages , the use of moulds enabled the potters of the ...
Page 426
... moulding machines . Bentham was particularly concerned with organizing the manufacture of pulley - blocks , of which 100 000 were required by the Admiralty each year . These were costly , as they were made by hand apart from the initial ...
... moulding machines . Bentham was particularly concerned with organizing the manufacture of pulley - blocks , of which 100 000 were required by the Admiralty each year . These were costly , as they were made by hand apart from the initial ...
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... Moulding - machinery , 437 . Munich Academy of Sciences , 654 . Muntz's metal , 130 . Museums : Blaise Castle House Folk Museum , Bristol , 209-10 . Chadwick Museum , Bolton , 279 . Science Museum , London , 318 , 423 , 456 , 639 , 652 ...
... Moulding - machinery , 437 . Munich Academy of Sciences , 654 . Muntz's metal , 130 . Museums : Blaise Castle House Folk Museum , Bristol , 209-10 . Chadwick Museum , Bolton , 279 . Science Museum , London , 318 , 423 , 456 , 639 , 652 ...
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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