A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... SILK Even today rather more than half the silk produced by the cultivated silkworm is unreelable , and it is probable that this proportion was even greater when silk- worm culture and silk - reeling were less efficient . It is this ...
... SILK Even today rather more than half the silk produced by the cultivated silkworm is unreelable , and it is probable that this proportion was even greater when silk- worm culture and silk - reeling were less efficient . It is this ...
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... silk . VI . THE WORK OF PASTEUR It was in 1865 that Pasteur ( 1822-95 ) began his investigations into the causes and ... silk industry not only in France but in other silk - producing countries . VII . THE WEIGHTING OF SILK The dyeing of ...
... silk . VI . THE WORK OF PASTEUR It was in 1865 that Pasteur ( 1822-95 ) began his investigations into the causes and ... silk industry not only in France but in other silk - producing countries . VII . THE WEIGHTING OF SILK The dyeing of ...
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... silk - spinning industry . Tussore silk in particular , from wild Indian silkworms , was spun and woven into a popular range of fabrics . On the continent these and other waste silks were only partially degummed by a process of ...
... silk - spinning industry . Tussore silk in particular , from wild Indian silkworms , was spun and woven into a popular range of fabrics . On the continent these and other waste silks were only partially degummed by a process of ...
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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