A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 365
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the job , and by regulating the ...
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the job , and by regulating the ...
Page 390
... operations required for this method . A 120 30 40 1501 B 09 25 The construction of the first machines for dividing did not ... operation . Meanwhile the progress in the optical qualities of telescopes , the improvement in manufacturing ...
... operations required for this method . A 120 30 40 1501 B 09 25 The construction of the first machines for dividing did not ... operation . Meanwhile the progress in the optical qualities of telescopes , the improvement in manufacturing ...
Page 607
... operation was directed by the Royal Society and executed by William Roy , who had long advocated ' a general survey of the whole island at public cost ' and had already in 1783 observed a series of triangles round London . Roy's base ...
... operation was directed by the Royal Society and executed by William Roy , who had long advocated ' a general survey of the whole island at public cost ' and had already in 1783 observed a series of triangles round London . Roy's base ...
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