A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 93
... pump used by Buddle at Hebburn colliery in 1807. It was a suction - pump consisting of a wooden piston 5 ft sq with a stroke of 8 ft , working in a wooden - lined chamber . At zo strokes a minute it exhausted 6000 cu ft of air in that ...
... pump used by Buddle at Hebburn colliery in 1807. It was a suction - pump consisting of a wooden piston 5 ft sq with a stroke of 8 ft , working in a wooden - lined chamber . At zo strokes a minute it exhausted 6000 cu ft of air in that ...
Page 192
... pump- barrel to become filled with water , an equilibrium valve was opened to equalize the pressure on both sides of the piston so that the latter was raised again to the head of the cylinder by the weight of the ram and pump - rod ...
... pump- barrel to become filled with water , an equilibrium valve was opened to equalize the pressure on both sides of the piston so that the latter was raised again to the head of the cylinder by the weight of the ram and pump - rod ...
Page 581
... pump for the dock alone , which was £ 2758 . The new engine was to pump by night and saw by day . It also raised fresh water from a well and pumped water through the fire - engine hoses . A second engine was ordered from Boulton and ...
... pump for the dock alone , which was £ 2758 . The new engine was to pump by night and saw by day . It also raised fresh water from a well and pumped water through the fire - engine hoses . A second engine was ordered from Boulton and ...
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