A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... became so great that the battlefields of Europe are said to have been searched for material . Late in the 1820s the first cargo of Peruvian guano arrived , to be followed not much later by shipments of Chilean nitrate . These were ...
... became so great that the battlefields of Europe are said to have been searched for material . Late in the 1820s the first cargo of Peruvian guano arrived , to be followed not much later by shipments of Chilean nitrate . These were ...
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... became known throughout Europe as monteiths , after Henry Monteith , who acquired Dalmarnock from Macintosh . In addition to the introduction of new dye - wares , mechanical and chemical invention added to the variety of textiles ...
... became known throughout Europe as monteiths , after Henry Monteith , who acquired Dalmarnock from Macintosh . In addition to the introduction of new dye - wares , mechanical and chemical invention added to the variety of textiles ...
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... became universal . Maudslay gave much attention to the initial formation of accurate screw- threads . In the method finally adopted a hard - wood cylinder was rotated in a suitable holder against a crescent - shaped knife held obliquely ...
... became universal . Maudslay gave much attention to the initial formation of accurate screw- threads . In the method finally adopted a hard - wood cylinder was rotated in a suitable holder against a crescent - shaped knife held obliquely ...
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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