A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... continued until the lead - silver alloy contained about 8 per cent of silver , when it was tapped out . It was then refined again in a similar way , the fire being increased towards the 2 FIGURE 83 - Pattinson's process , 1833. ( Above ) ...
... continued until the lead - silver alloy contained about 8 per cent of silver , when it was tapped out . It was then refined again in a similar way , the fire being increased towards the 2 FIGURE 83 - Pattinson's process , 1833. ( Above ) ...
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... continued everywhere , with the possible exception of England , and the earlier great centres continued to operate , in some instances even to the present day . Thus , while for half a century Italian maiolica enjoyed an unrivalled ...
... continued everywhere , with the possible exception of England , and the earlier great centres continued to operate , in some instances even to the present day . Thus , while for half a century Italian maiolica enjoyed an unrivalled ...
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... continued to be slow , taking about ten days . Grinding and polishing were necessary because the surface of the glass was roughened during manufacture by contact with the roller above and the casting - table below . Some of the ...
... continued to be slow , taking about ten days . Grinding and polishing were necessary because the surface of the glass was roughened during manufacture by contact with the roller above and the casting - table below . Some of the ...
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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