A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... stones in four - quarter ' dress . had two pairs of stones but now has only one pair . IX . VARIETIES OF MILLSTONE Years ago there used to be three main varieties of millstone : ( a ) solid Peak stones , quarried in Derbyshire ; ( b ) ...
... stones in four - quarter ' dress . had two pairs of stones but now has only one pair . IX . VARIETIES OF MILLSTONE Years ago there used to be three main varieties of millstone : ( a ) solid Peak stones , quarried in Derbyshire ; ( b ) ...
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 ...
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... stones was welcomed by the workmen , who set their wives and children to work at breaking stones and profited by McAdam's insistence on good grading . McAdam enforced the use of the 2 - in ring for the measurement of stones , which he ...
... stones was welcomed by the workmen , who set their wives and children to work at breaking stones and profited by McAdam's insistence on good grading . McAdam enforced the use of the 2 - in ring for the measurement of stones , which he ...
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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