A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... effect oxidation . A typical sublimation furnace of the period is shown in figure 70 . II . LEAD Lead occurs widely as the sulphide , galena , but also as sulphate , carbonate , phosphate , chloride , and other forms . Throughout this ...
... effect oxidation . A typical sublimation furnace of the period is shown in figure 70 . II . LEAD Lead occurs widely as the sulphide , galena , but also as sulphate , carbonate , phosphate , chloride , and other forms . Throughout this ...
Page 204
... effect or power of a breast - wheel would be the sum of ( a ) the effect of an undershot with a head equal to the difference in height between the surface of the water in the storage pond and the level where it struck the wheel , and ...
... effect or power of a breast - wheel would be the sum of ( a ) the effect of an undershot with a head equal to the difference in height between the surface of the water in the storage pond and the level where it struck the wheel , and ...
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... effect was obtained when the velocity of the wheel's circum- ference was a little more than 3 ft in a second ; and hence it became a general rule to make the speed of the overshot water - wheels at their circumfer- ence 3ft per second ...
... effect was obtained when the velocity of the wheel's circum- ference was a little more than 3 ft in a second ; and hence it became a general rule to make the speed of the overshot water - wheels at their circumfer- ence 3ft per second ...
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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