A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 105
... iron - smelting was erected at the French state ironworks at Le Creusot built by William Wilkinson in association ... cast iron weighing about 6 tons . A is the hammer head and B the hammer . The anvil ( C ) was fitted into a cast iron ...
... iron - smelting was erected at the French state ironworks at Le Creusot built by William Wilkinson in association ... cast iron weighing about 6 tons . A is the hammer head and B the hammer . The anvil ( C ) was fitted into a cast iron ...
Page 108
... cast steel could not be welded , since it would not bear more than a red heat ( c 900 ° C ) . The invention was ... iron remained superior to every other material for the construction of ordnance . Attempts were indeed made to substitute cast ...
... cast steel could not be welded , since it would not bear more than a red heat ( c 900 ° C ) . The invention was ... iron remained superior to every other material for the construction of ordnance . Attempts were indeed made to substitute cast ...
Page 208
... cast iron water - wheel axle was made in 1769 for the Carron No 1 furnace blowing - engine , to replace one with a fractured wooden axle . A typical example was the cast iron shaft for the wheel at H.M. Victualling Office , Deptford ...
... cast iron water - wheel axle was made in 1769 for the Carron No 1 furnace blowing - engine , to replace one with a fractured wooden axle . A typical example was the cast iron shaft for the wheel at H.M. Victualling Office , Deptford ...
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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