A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... consisted of a number of flails on a shaft operated by water - power in such a manner that they struck grain laid out on the floor beneath them . Another method , tried by William Winlaw , consisted of a rubbing- mill , not unlike a ...
... consisted of a number of flails on a shaft operated by water - power in such a manner that they struck grain laid out on the floor beneath them . Another method , tried by William Winlaw , consisted of a rubbing- mill , not unlike a ...
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... consisted of a rectangular trough along which straw was moved by hand . As the straw reached the end of the trough ... consisting of a lever hinged to a trestle , appeared after 1800. This implement acted by downward pressure of the ...
... consisted of a rectangular trough along which straw was moved by hand . As the straw reached the end of the trough ... consisting of a lever hinged to a trestle , appeared after 1800. This implement acted by downward pressure of the ...
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... consisted of a horizontal rope drum , 12 to 16 ft in diameter , built round a vertical axis , the foot of which turned on a stone or an iron casting and the head pivot of which was supported by a long span - beam resting at its end upon ...
... consisted of a horizontal rope drum , 12 to 16 ft in diameter , built round a vertical axis , the foot of which turned on a stone or an iron casting and the head pivot of which was supported by a long span - beam resting at its end upon ...
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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