A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... took the form of a revolving cylinder divided at first into two , and later into three , compart- ments , alternately filled with gas and emptied as the cylinder revolved . Its complicated and mechanically unsound valve- mechanism ...
... took the form of a revolving cylinder divided at first into two , and later into three , compart- ments , alternately filled with gas and emptied as the cylinder revolved . Its complicated and mechanically unsound valve- mechanism ...
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... took place chiefly in Germany and France , and , since they brought about a considerable reduction in the price of silk goods , the British silk industry suffered a serious decline . Lack of technical knowledge of the pro- cesses of ...
... took place chiefly in Germany and France , and , since they brought about a considerable reduction in the price of silk goods , the British silk industry suffered a serious decline . Lack of technical knowledge of the pro- cesses of ...
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... took place on the threshold of the industrial revolu- tion , were , however , none of them in the direct line of ceramic evolution from the small pot - houses to the great factories such as those organized by Wedgwood and Spode . To ...
... took place on the threshold of the industrial revolu- tion , were , however , none of them in the direct line of ceramic evolution from the small pot - houses to the great factories such as those organized by Wedgwood and Spode . To ...
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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