A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... changes more sudden and violent than in fact took place ; the varying dates that historians assign to this period of rapid change themselves suggest that neither its beginning nor its end is susceptible of sharp definition . Never ...
... changes more sudden and violent than in fact took place ; the varying dates that historians assign to this period of rapid change themselves suggest that neither its beginning nor its end is susceptible of sharp definition . Never ...
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... changes of the French Revolution — shock- ing though their excesses were disseminated new conceptions of individual freedom that played their role also in the Industrial Revolution . With no liberty to change employment or to seek other ...
... changes of the French Revolution — shock- ing though their excesses were disseminated new conceptions of individual freedom that played their role also in the Industrial Revolution . With no liberty to change employment or to seek other ...
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... change to more advanced methods and had of necessity to continue to use old - style implements . During the period now ... changes in the equipment available between the beginning and the end of the period amounted to no less than a ...
... change to more advanced methods and had of necessity to continue to use old - style implements . During the period now ... changes in the equipment available between the beginning and the end of the period amounted to no less than a ...
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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