A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... period of rapid change themselves suggest that neither its beginning nor its end is susceptible of sharp definition . Never- theless , the hundred years from 1750 to 1850 with which we are here concerned saw technological developments ...
... period of rapid change themselves suggest that neither its beginning nor its end is susceptible of sharp definition . Never- theless , the hundred years from 1750 to 1850 with which we are here concerned saw technological developments ...
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... period now under review , however , the big landowners and the farmers with capital never hesitated to take advantage of the great technical changes of the times . In fact , the changes in the equipment available between the beginning ...
... period now under review , however , the big landowners and the farmers with capital never hesitated to take advantage of the great technical changes of the times . In fact , the changes in the equipment available between the beginning ...
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... period under discussion the soap industry benefited greatly by cognate development in the chemical industry and by the advance of chemical knowledge ; then towards the end of the period the availa- bility of sulphuric acid made possible ...
... period under discussion the soap industry benefited greatly by cognate development in the chemical industry and by the advance of chemical knowledge ; then towards the end of the period the availa- bility of sulphuric acid made possible ...
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