A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine state of comminution . Again , the clover crop fed the soil , as the farmers knew without being able to explain : only comparatively recently has science discovered that bacteria in the ...
... natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine state of comminution . Again , the clover crop fed the soil , as the farmers knew without being able to explain : only comparatively recently has science discovered that bacteria in the ...
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... natural philosophers . In 1618 Jean Tardin studied a burning seepage of natural gas and concluded that it had something in common with the flames from burning oil or coal [ 1 ] . In 1667 Thomas Shirley ( 1638-78 ) sent a communication ...
... natural philosophers . In 1618 Jean Tardin studied a burning seepage of natural gas and concluded that it had something in common with the flames from burning oil or coal [ 1 ] . In 1667 Thomas Shirley ( 1638-78 ) sent a communication ...
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... natural stone . For massive features such as columns , as at Carlton House Terrace and Buckingham Palace , Nash used cast iron painted to look like stone . Cements , mortars , and plasters . The commonest substance for use as the active ...
... natural stone . For massive features such as columns , as at Carlton House Terrace and Buckingham Palace , Nash used cast iron painted to look like stone . Cements , mortars , and plasters . The commonest substance for use as the active ...
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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