A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... successful machine embodying it was built in 1786 by Andrew Meikle of the East Lothians of Scotland . Meikle's machine was a simple one consisting of drum and concave only ; it had none of the elaborate cleaning equipment of later days ...
... successful machine embodying it was built in 1786 by Andrew Meikle of the East Lothians of Scotland . Meikle's machine was a simple one consisting of drum and concave only ; it had none of the elaborate cleaning equipment of later days ...
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... successful , for clogging would soon have occurred . A better method was found earlier , in 1674 , by the Dutch painter Jan Van der Heyden , inventor of the fire - engine with suction- and delivery - hoses . We have no drawing of his ...
... successful , for clogging would soon have occurred . A better method was found earlier , in 1674 , by the Dutch painter Jan Van der Heyden , inventor of the fire - engine with suction- and delivery - hoses . We have no drawing of his ...
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... successful cable was laid in September 1851 . If the development of the electric telegraph represented one major milestone in the progress of human communications , the development of the submarine cable was another of equal importance ...
... successful cable was laid in September 1851 . If the development of the electric telegraph represented one major milestone in the progress of human communications , the development of the submarine cable was another of equal importance ...
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