A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures ' , Vol . 1 , fig . 137. London , [ 1853-61 ] . D. E. Woodall 71 Smelting lead . After J. PERCY . ' Metallurgy ' , Vol . 3 : ' Metallurgy of Lead ' , fig . 93. London , 1870 . K. F. ...
... Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures ' , Vol . 1 , fig . 137. London , [ 1853-61 ] . D. E. Woodall 71 Smelting lead . After J. PERCY . ' Metallurgy ' , Vol . 3 : ' Metallurgy of Lead ' , fig . 93. London , 1870 . K. F. ...
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... applied will also yield a black : it was used , for example , by Wedgwood in the production of his black basalt ware . The fourth of the high temperature colours , yellow , is produced by antimony , which with the addition of iron oxide ...
... applied will also yield a black : it was used , for example , by Wedgwood in the production of his black basalt ware . The fourth of the high temperature colours , yellow , is produced by antimony , which with the addition of iron oxide ...
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... applied science . Two brief biographical examples must suffice to throw light on some of these precursors . One was a Renaissance artist whose genius for applied science was at least comparable with that of Archimedes . Leonardo da ...
... applied science . Two brief biographical examples must suffice to throw light on some of these precursors . One was a Renaissance artist whose genius for applied science was at least comparable with that of Archimedes . Leonardo da ...
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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