A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... say one month , the accounts were made up . So much was then paid to the mineral owner , say one - tenth to one - seventh ; the tributers or bargain men were paid their share ; and what was left over was divided amongst the adventurers ...
... say one month , the accounts were made up . So much was then paid to the mineral owner , say one - tenth to one - seventh ; the tributers or bargain men were paid their share ; and what was left over was divided amongst the adventurers ...
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... says ] the increase in weight of metals calcined in closed vessels is due , as Boyle thought , to the addition of the matter of flame and fire which penetrates the pores of the glass and combines with the metal , it follows that if ...
... says ] the increase in weight of metals calcined in closed vessels is due , as Boyle thought , to the addition of the matter of flame and fire which penetrates the pores of the glass and combines with the metal , it follows that if ...
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... says de Morveau , in combining with oxygen produces an acid . To conserve the idea of this origin and to express clearly the first degree of composition , the name of this acid ought to be a derivative of the word sulphur ; but this ...
... says de Morveau , in combining with oxygen produces an acid . To conserve the idea of this origin and to express clearly the first degree of composition , the name of this acid ought to be a derivative of the word sulphur ; but this ...
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