A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... tion with the cereals there were two advantages . The roots had to be hoed to cut out competing weeds until the crop had developed enough leaf to smother them . This destroyed unwanted natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine ...
... tion with the cereals there were two advantages . The roots had to be hoed to cut out competing weeds until the crop had developed enough leaf to smother them . This destroyed unwanted natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine ...
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... tion everywhere in the future : entrance to be by competitive examination ; lec- tures to large classes to be given by leading scientists appointed as whole - time teachers ; and practical work to be done by students in chemical and ...
... tion everywhere in the future : entrance to be by competitive examination ; lec- tures to large classes to be given by leading scientists appointed as whole - time teachers ; and practical work to be done by students in chemical and ...
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... tion was undertaken is of some interest . Further developments in that direc- tion , combined with the studies of the elastic behaviour of materials by members of the Académie des Sciences and the Ponts et Chaussées were in due course ...
... tion was undertaken is of some interest . Further developments in that direc- tion , combined with the studies of the elastic behaviour of materials by members of the Académie des Sciences and the Ponts et Chaussées were in due course ...
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