A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 328
... European pottery . Not only did the physical properties of the imported wares derive from techniques then unknown in Europe , but the idiom in which they were decorated became a standard of style that was widely copied and adapted to ...
... European pottery . Not only did the physical properties of the imported wares derive from techniques then unknown in Europe , but the idiom in which they were decorated became a standard of style that was widely copied and adapted to ...
Page 336
... Europe . Chinese porcelain , as has been said , was characterized by a quality and white- ness not previously known in Europe . To emulate such excellence , Dutch potters turned their attention to the more careful preparation of their ...
... Europe . Chinese porcelain , as has been said , was characterized by a quality and white- ness not previously known in Europe . To emulate such excellence , Dutch potters turned their attention to the more careful preparation of their ...
Page 337
... Europe was the result of Dutch and Portuguese trade , but knowledge of porcelain may also have reached Medi- terranean Europe even earlier by the land route through Persia or Egypt . Certainly the first porcelain of any sort to be made ...
... Europe was the result of Dutch and Portuguese trade , but knowledge of porcelain may also have reached Medi- terranean Europe even earlier by the land route through Persia or Egypt . Certainly the first porcelain of any sort to be made ...
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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 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