A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... experiments with mills built according to his plans . In his account of this work , which was not printed until nearly 300 years later , he tried to calculate the amount of water thrown out by the scoop - wheel and the pressure on the ...
... experiments with mills built according to his plans . In his account of this work , which was not printed until nearly 300 years later , he tried to calculate the amount of water thrown out by the scoop - wheel and the pressure on the ...
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... EXPERIMENTS At the time when John Smeaton ( 1724-92 ) was born , many industries were dependent on water - wheels for the power to drive machinery . Horse - mills were inadequate , and windmills were unsuitable for processes where ...
... EXPERIMENTS At the time when John Smeaton ( 1724-92 ) was born , many industries were dependent on water - wheels for the power to drive machinery . Horse - mills were inadequate , and windmills were unsuitable for processes where ...
Page 308
... experiments and made numerous observations concerning the life and habits of the silkworm — more correctly , the silk - caterpillar - in relation to the qualities and quantities of the silk produced by it , and their findings ...
... experiments and made numerous observations concerning the life and habits of the silkworm — more correctly , the silk - caterpillar - in relation to the qualities and quantities of the silk produced by it , and their findings ...
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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