A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 289
... moved all the machinery C H FIGURE 159 - Side view of headstock of Roberts's self - acting mule . ( AA ) Steam - driven pulleys ; ( BB ) driving belts ; ( c ) driving shaft ; ( D ) scroll pulley for inward journey ; ( E ) drum driving ...
... moved all the machinery C H FIGURE 159 - Side view of headstock of Roberts's self - acting mule . ( AA ) Steam - driven pulleys ; ( BB ) driving belts ; ( c ) driving shaft ; ( D ) scroll pulley for inward journey ; ( E ) drum driving ...
Page 301
... moved twice ( once forward and once back ) for every movement of the E H FIGURE 166 - Roberts's power loom , front view . ( A ) Wheel on main shaft , driving wheel ( B ) on tappet or wiper shaft ( C ) ; ( DD ) tappets or excentric ...
... moved twice ( once forward and once back ) for every movement of the E H FIGURE 166 - Roberts's power loom , front view . ( A ) Wheel on main shaft , driving wheel ( B ) on tappet or wiper shaft ( C ) ; ( DD ) tappets or excentric ...
Page 434
... moved by a rack - rod on the bed . This rod is moved to and fro by the table coming against stops . By means of guide pulleys , the band also reverses the tool - holder at the end of each stroke , thus cutting in both directions . In ...
... moved by a rack - rod on the bed . This rod is moved to and fro by the table coming against stops . By means of guide pulleys , the band also reverses the tool - holder at the end of each stroke , thus cutting in both directions . In ...
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