A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 88
... vertical axis , the foot of which turned on a stone or an iron casting and the head pivot of which was supported by a long span - beam resting at its end upon inclined legs . The horses were attached at one or both ends of a strong ...
... vertical axis , the foot of which turned on a stone or an iron casting and the head pivot of which was supported by a long span - beam resting at its end upon inclined legs . The horses were attached at one or both ends of a strong ...
Page 211
... vertical pit - wheel A , driving by bevel cogs the wal- lower or horizontal wheel B on the main vertical shaft C. The latter is of apple wood , about 18 inches in diameter , and is supported in a bearing on the ground floor ; it extends ...
... vertical pit - wheel A , driving by bevel cogs the wal- lower or horizontal wheel B on the main vertical shaft C. The latter is of apple wood , about 18 inches in diameter , and is supported in a bearing on the ground floor ; it extends ...
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... vertical movement of the sight required to align the telescope , with its more restricted field of view , on the object . Thus the surveyor could observe horizontal and vertical angles simultaneously . The func- tion of the compass ...
... vertical movement of the sight required to align the telescope , with its more restricted field of view , on the object . Thus the surveyor could observe horizontal and vertical angles simultaneously . The func- tion of the compass ...
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