A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... taken out by Ransome in 1808 ; this was for a plough - frame of iron to which standardized replaceable parts could be fitted . This plough was constructed in such a way that it could be taken to pieces with ease and fresh parts ...
... taken out by Ransome in 1808 ; this was for a plough - frame of iron to which standardized replaceable parts could be fitted . This plough was constructed in such a way that it could be taken to pieces with ease and fresh parts ...
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... taken from the crucible in one operation . The first gathering after removal was accord- ingly cooled and a second gathering taken upon it by another assistant . Mean- while the pipe had become too hot to handle with comfort , and so ...
... taken from the crucible in one operation . The first gathering after removal was accord- ingly cooled and a second gathering taken upon it by another assistant . Mean- while the pipe had become too hot to handle with comfort , and so ...
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... taken up . This mode of measurement permitted fairly exact assessment of the quantity of heat - energy taken up in unit time by a steam - engine . By means of it , Black discovered that on being converted to steam at the same ...
... taken up . This mode of measurement permitted fairly exact assessment of the quantity of heat - energy taken up in unit time by a steam - engine . By means of it , Black discovered that on being converted to steam at the same ...
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