A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 145
... obtained by the Swedish chemist Brandt in 1733 from the mineral cobalt or zaffre , long used to give a blue colour to glass . Until the second half of the nineteenth century the metal was scarcely more than a labora- tory curiosity and ...
... obtained by the Swedish chemist Brandt in 1733 from the mineral cobalt or zaffre , long used to give a blue colour to glass . Until the second half of the nineteenth century the metal was scarcely more than a labora- tory curiosity and ...
Page 179
... obtained from William Brown ( p 178 ) a list of about 100 engines in the north of England , with particulars of the perform- ances of 15 of them having cylinders ranging from 20 to 75 inches in diameter , and collected further ...
... obtained from William Brown ( p 178 ) a list of about 100 engines in the north of England , with particulars of the perform- ances of 15 of them having cylinders ranging from 20 to 75 inches in diameter , and collected further ...
Page 498
... obtained partly from springs but principally from the Seine . From 1786 the water was sold by water - carriers , who hawked the water obtained from public tanks known as fontaines marchandes , but from 1819 it was forbidden to fill the ...
... obtained partly from springs but principally from the Seine . From 1786 the water was sold by water - carriers , who hawked the water obtained from public tanks known as fontaines marchandes , but from 1819 it was forbidden to fill the ...
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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