A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... early inconclusive experiments in gas - lighting . Charles Green , in 1821 , appears to have been the first person to apply coal - gas on any scale to ballooning , but Faujas de Saint - Fond had suggested its use as early as 1783 ...
... early inconclusive experiments in gas - lighting . Charles Green , in 1821 , appears to have been the first person to apply coal - gas on any scale to ballooning , but Faujas de Saint - Fond had suggested its use as early as 1783 ...
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... early as the seventeenth century , and was first brought to the notice of surveyors by William Green ( 1725–1811 ) in a pamphlet published in London in 1778 [ 1 ] . The ' stadiometer ' described by Green , like the modern tacheometer ...
... early as the seventeenth century , and was first brought to the notice of surveyors by William Green ( 1725–1811 ) in a pamphlet published in London in 1778 [ 1 ] . The ' stadiometer ' described by Green , like the modern tacheometer ...
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... early stage the blade was replaced by a bag of permeable fabric , made of hemp or leather , attached to a strong metal ring . This instrument still forms a useful means for dredging ; it has also been used in well - sinking . For the ...
... early stage the blade was replaced by a bag of permeable fabric , made of hemp or leather , attached to a strong metal ring . This instrument still forms a useful means for dredging ; it has also been used in well - sinking . For 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