A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... established was the London Bridge waterworks in 1581 ; by means of pumps driven by water - wheels , water was raised from the Thames at London Bridge ( figure 277 ) . The works when fully established are stated to have been capable of ...
... established was the London Bridge waterworks in 1581 ; by means of pumps driven by water - wheels , water was raised from the Thames at London Bridge ( figure 277 ) . The works when fully established are stated to have been capable of ...
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... established to meet increasing demands , and in 1848 the company procured purer sources of supply by moving its intake to Surbiton , where filter - beds ( p 501 ) were constructed . The East London Waterworks Company was established in ...
... established to meet increasing demands , and in 1848 the company procured purer sources of supply by moving its intake to Surbiton , where filter - beds ( p 501 ) were constructed . The East London Waterworks Company was established in ...
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... establishing public wells , and not until the nineteenth century were underground catchments , surface - water dams , and ... established in Helsinki in 1876 . 5363.4 Kk At the beginning of the nineteenth century the supply of SANITARY ...
... establishing public wells , and not until the nineteenth century were underground catchments , surface - water dams , and ... established in Helsinki in 1876 . 5363.4 Kk At the beginning of the nineteenth century the supply of SANITARY ...
Contents
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