A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 34
Page 164
... Boulton and Watt speak of '20 -horse engines ' , using a unit devised by Watt in 1783 , each ' horse ' being the power to lift 33 000 lb through one foot in a minute , but in fact the early engineers had great difficulty in finding a ...
... Boulton and Watt speak of '20 -horse engines ' , using a unit devised by Watt in 1783 , each ' horse ' being the power to lift 33 000 lb through one foot in a minute , but in fact the early engineers had great difficulty in finding a ...
Page 183
... Boulton ( 1728–1809 ) , a leading manufacturer whose works was at Soho , near Birmingham ( plate 31 A ) . Boulton became interested in the engine because his own works was short of water - power and he was seeking means of pumping back ...
... Boulton ( 1728–1809 ) , a leading manufacturer whose works was at Soho , near Birmingham ( plate 31 A ) . Boulton became interested in the engine because his own works was short of water - power and he was seeking means of pumping back ...
Page 268
... Boulton and Watt idea of installing gas mill by mill and house by house was unsound . He saw that consumers would have to be supplied through mains radiating from central gas - generating stations . He realized , too , that the amount ...
... Boulton and Watt idea of installing gas mill by mill and house by house was unsound . He saw that consumers would have to be supplied through mains radiating from central gas - generating stations . He realized , too , that the amount ...
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 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agricultural beam became blast-furnace 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 husbandry Ibid important improved inches increased industrial revolution industry 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