A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... nineteenth century , however , adopted an older conic projection , also equal - area , used by Rigobert Bonne ( 1727-95 ) in 1752 and named after him . Lambert's conformal conic projection was revived for military mapping in the ...
... nineteenth century , however , adopted an older conic projection , also equal - area , used by Rigobert Bonne ( 1727-95 ) in 1752 and named after him . Lambert's conformal conic projection was revived for military mapping in the ...
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... nineteenth century ) , manufacturer of sulphuric acid , 245 . Beaumont , J. B. A. L. L. Élie de ( 1798-1874 ) ... century ) , glass - maker , 369 . Bessel , F. W. ( 1784-1846 ) , astronomer , 601 . Besson , Jacques ( c 1573 ) , author of ...
... nineteenth century ) , manufacturer of sulphuric acid , 245 . Beaumont , J. B. A. L. L. Élie de ( 1798-1874 ) ... century ) , glass - maker , 369 . Bessel , F. W. ( 1784-1846 ) , astronomer , 601 . Besson , Jacques ( c 1573 ) , author of ...
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... ( nineteenth century ) , engineer , 631 . Marcellus ( ? 270-208 B.C. ) , Roman general , 665-6 . March ( c 1814 ) , tool manufacturer , 433 . Marggraf , Andreas Sigismund ( 1709-82 ) , chemist , and sugar from sugar - beet , 28 . Maria ...
... ( nineteenth century ) , engineer , 631 . Marcellus ( ? 270-208 B.C. ) , Roman general , 665-6 . March ( c 1814 ) , tool manufacturer , 433 . Marggraf , Andreas Sigismund ( 1709-82 ) , chemist , and sugar from sugar - beet , 28 . Maria ...
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