A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... followed in the comparatively small area comprising the present - day Belgium and Holland , where differences in the soils and the level of the water - table make such variations necessary . It was the treatment of the light sandy soils ...
... followed in the comparatively small area comprising the present - day Belgium and Holland , where differences in the soils and the level of the water - table make such variations necessary . It was the treatment of the light sandy soils ...
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... followed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century . One was the true alternate husbandry of straw crop - green crop regularly , or nearly regu- larly . The other was a type of convertible husbandry : some years of cropping with ...
... followed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century . One was the true alternate husbandry of straw crop - green crop regularly , or nearly regu- larly . The other was a type of convertible husbandry : some years of cropping with ...
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... followed in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin's patent for Port- land cement ( p 448 ) . The first large masonry dam , the Vyrnwy dam in north Wales , for supplying Liverpool , was constructed during the years 1881-92 . This dam is 1172 ft long and ...
... followed in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin's patent for Port- land cement ( p 448 ) . The first large masonry dam , the Vyrnwy dam in north Wales , for supplying Liverpool , was constructed during the years 1881-92 . This dam is 1172 ft long and ...
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