A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... remained . Denmark and Schleswig - Holstein were handicapped in the eighteenth century by the heavy incidence of ... remained rather primitive . The implements were crude and rather inefficient , but cereals and pulse were cultivated ...
... remained . Denmark and Schleswig - Holstein were handicapped in the eighteenth century by the heavy incidence of ... remained rather primitive . The implements were crude and rather inefficient , but cereals and pulse were cultivated ...
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... remained as reacting spaces only ( figure 132 ) . The process having been made continuous by Jean Louis Holker ( 1770-1844 ) , it remained virtually unaltered until the introduction of the catalytic or contact process many years later ...
... remained as reacting spaces only ( figure 132 ) . The process having been made continuous by Jean Louis Holker ( 1770-1844 ) , it remained virtually unaltered until the introduction of the catalytic or contact process many years later ...
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... remained in the principal operation , the division of an arc into 90 degrees . The only strictly accurate division which can be done with a compass is the bisection of an arc , but it was not possible to go very far with this alone ...
... remained in the principal operation , the division of an arc into 90 degrees . The only strictly accurate division which can be done with a compass is the bisection of an arc , but it was not possible to go very far with this alone ...
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