A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... pipe , a process perfected in the following ten . years . An early pipe for gas is shown in figure 146 . FIGURE 146 - A length of -in iron pipe laid in 1836 by the Cupar Gas Company . ( Left ) External view ; ( right ) . section ...
... pipe , a process perfected in the following ten . years . An early pipe for gas is shown in figure 146 . FIGURE 146 - A length of -in iron pipe laid in 1836 by the Cupar Gas Company . ( Left ) External view ; ( right ) . section ...
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... pipe - line controlling the flow from the Belmont reservoir ( figure 283 ) ; it was discovered when repairs to the ... pipe in the Belmont reservoir . 1824 . FIGURE 286 - The English two - pipe drainage system. SANITARY ENGINEERING ...
... pipe - line controlling the flow from the Belmont reservoir ( figure 283 ) ; it was discovered when repairs to the ... pipe in the Belmont reservoir . 1824 . FIGURE 286 - The English two - pipe drainage system. SANITARY ENGINEERING ...
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... pipe D which acts as the main ventilating pipe . The soil pipe only takes sewage from w.c.s which are con- nected to it by branches as at E , Each w.c. is trapped and the lower w.c.s provided with antisiphonage pipes as at F , so that ...
... pipe D which acts as the main ventilating pipe . The soil pipe only takes sewage from w.c.s which are con- nected to it by branches as at E , Each w.c. is trapped and the lower w.c.s provided with antisiphonage pipes as at F , so that ...
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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