A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... crops . The result was that crop - yields were low , and animals and their products were small . The great problem was to increase supplies of animal feed for use in winter . In some of the earliest printed books on farming , didactic ...
... crops . The result was that crop - yields were low , and animals and their products were small . The great problem was to increase supplies of animal feed for use in winter . In some of the earliest printed books on farming , didactic ...
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... crops in succession , followed by a series of catch - crops to feed the sheep . The advantages of the system are obvious . Instead of having one - third of the arable , as in the open fields , without a crop of any kind , all the fields ...
... crops in succession , followed by a series of catch - crops to feed the sheep . The advantages of the system are obvious . Instead of having one - third of the arable , as in the open fields , without a crop of any kind , all the fields ...
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... crops . These formed part of an improved three - field system in which part of the fallow field — a half or three- quarters — was devoted to fodder crops , red clover , potatoes , roots , and pulse , though a part was preserved as ...
... crops . These formed part of an improved three - field system in which part of the fallow field — a half or three- quarters — was devoted to fodder crops , red clover , potatoes , roots , and pulse , though a part was preserved as ...
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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