A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... stone , which they tended to replace in just the same way as Coade stone and lead had replaced the more expensive carved natural stone . For massive features such as columns , as at Carlton House Terrace and Buckingham Palace , Nash ...
... stone , which they tended to replace in just the same way as Coade stone and lead had replaced the more expensive carved natural stone . For massive features such as columns , as at Carlton House Terrace and Buckingham Palace , Nash ...
Page 532
... stones must be executed with the greatest care and strictly according to the foregoing directions , or otherwise the stone will become loose and in time may work up to the sur- face of the road . When the work is properly executed , no ...
... stones must be executed with the greatest care and strictly according to the foregoing directions , or otherwise the stone will become loose and in time may work up to the sur- face of the road . When the work is properly executed , no ...
Page 538
... stone - crusher . This treated stones for the roads in Central Park , New York City , which were then being built . It did not meet with enthusiasm , for a prize - winning essay of 1890 still assures us that ' hand - broken stone is ...
... stone - crusher . This treated stones for the roads in Central Park , New York City , which were then being built . It did not meet with enthusiasm , for a prize - winning essay of 1890 still assures us that ' hand - broken stone is ...
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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