A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... resulting in the restoration of the silk - industry to its former prosperity , belongs to a later pericd ( p 320 ) ... result that in a few years satisfactory qualities were established and exports considerably increased . The basis of ...
... resulting in the restoration of the silk - industry to its former prosperity , belongs to a later pericd ( p 320 ) ... result that in a few years satisfactory qualities were established and exports considerably increased . The basis of ...
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... result , in 1782 Wedgwood ordered his first steam - engine . It was designed to supply power for grinding flint and enamel colours , to operate a saggar - crusher , and to temper or mix clay . This first order given by Wedgwood was ...
... result , in 1782 Wedgwood ordered his first steam - engine . It was designed to supply power for grinding flint and enamel colours , to operate a saggar - crusher , and to temper or mix clay . This first order given by Wedgwood was ...
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... result the bucket comes into a position in which it will hold the mud that it has grasped . Meanwhile the smaller wheel has paid out the rope attached to the bucket , but this is then stopped , or at least checked , by the seaman , with ...
... result the bucket comes into a position in which it will hold the mud that it has grasped . Meanwhile the smaller wheel has paid out the rope attached to the bucket , but this is then stopped , or at least checked , by the seaman , with ...
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