A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... sulphuric acid and other raw materials . After a time he started to make his own sulphuric acid by burning sulphur or pyrites ; if he used pyrites , it was probably a mixed sulphide of copper and iron , and it was comparatively easy to ...
... sulphuric acid and other raw materials . After a time he started to make his own sulphuric acid by burning sulphur or pyrites ; if he used pyrites , it was probably a mixed sulphide of copper and iron , and it was comparatively easy to ...
Page 243
... sulphuric acid from the laboratory scale to that of the factory . They still used glass vessels - of some 40 to 50 gallons capacity - but they produced acid at about a twentieth of the former price , and so presented to industry for the ...
... sulphuric acid from the laboratory scale to that of the factory . They still used glass vessels - of some 40 to 50 gallons capacity - but they produced acid at about a twentieth of the former price , and so presented to industry for the ...
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... sulphuric acid until it was found useful as a substitute for sour milk - till then the only acid liquor available in quantity to the bleaching - trade . It hap- pened that for several decades the Board of Trustees for Fisheries ...
... sulphuric acid until it was found useful as a substitute for sour milk - till then the only acid liquor available in quantity to the bleaching - trade . It hap- pened that for several decades the Board of Trustees for Fisheries ...
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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