A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 183
... Watt had begun practising as a civil engineer , and partly because Roebuck was becoming financially embarrassed . Watt had occasion to visit London on business , and on his return , furnished with introductions from friends , he called ...
... Watt had begun practising as a civil engineer , and partly because Roebuck was becoming financially embarrassed . Watt had occasion to visit London on business , and on his return , furnished with introductions from friends , he called ...
Page 185
... Watt , but was taken up by one of his workmen and patented in another name in 1780. The patent might have been contested , but the long - headed Watt , who himself held numerous patents , was too wise to become involved in litigation of ...
... Watt , but was taken up by one of his workmen and patented in another name in 1780. The patent might have been contested , but the long - headed Watt , who himself held numerous patents , was too wise to become involved in litigation of ...
Page 186
... Watt's first notion was to extend the piston - rod by a rack which would gear with a toothed arc on the end of the beam . This was a clumsy device , and in 1784 he patented his well known three - bar straight - line motion , which he ...
... Watt's first notion was to extend the piston - rod by a rack which would gear with a toothed arc on the end of the beam . This was a clumsy device , and in 1784 he patented his well known three - bar straight - line motion , which he ...
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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