A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... fallow land . Turnips were grown as a catch - crop and for fodder ; carrots and spurrey ( Spergula arvensis ) were sown with corn or flax . Mixed grains also were grown . Throughout the period every effort was being made to extend the ...
... fallow land . Turnips were grown as a catch - crop and for fodder ; carrots and spurrey ( Spergula arvensis ) were sown with corn or flax . Mixed grains also were grown . Throughout the period every effort was being made to extend the ...
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... fallow alternately , or possibly three grain - crops and fallow . The fallow in time began to be cultivated partly with clover and partly with roots , and eventually these alternated in the series between the two cereal crops . It is ...
... fallow alternately , or possibly three grain - crops and fallow . The fallow in time began to be cultivated partly with clover and partly with roots , and eventually these alternated in the series between the two cereal crops . It is ...
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... fallow field . Except occasionally in French Flanders , in Alsace , and in Normandy , the bare fallow year was general , and in a large proportion of the country the ancient system of crop , fallow , crop , fallow was followed . It was ...
... fallow field . Except occasionally in French Flanders , in Alsace , and in Normandy , the bare fallow year was general , and in a large proportion of the country the ancient system of crop , fallow , crop , fallow was followed . It was ...
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