A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... furnaces began about 1702 . The furnace was an improved form of a rever- beratory furnace , in which the iron did not come into immediate contact with the coal used as fuel , so that impurities in the latter could not exert any ...
... furnaces began about 1702 . The furnace was an improved form of a rever- beratory furnace , in which the iron did not come into immediate contact with the coal used as fuel , so that impurities in the latter could not exert any ...
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... furnace set the pattern for the further development of the blast - furnace . It was first taken up by the ironmasters of the Black Country . The furnaces , which before 1832 had an average height of 35 to 40 ft , increased to a height ...
... furnace set the pattern for the further development of the blast - furnace . It was first taken up by the ironmasters of the Black Country . The furnaces , which before 1832 had an average height of 35 to 40 ft , increased to a height ...
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... furnaces , whereas the metal ran out of the Blei- berg furnace as it was formed . The ore , after grinding and washing , was first converted to sulphate by gentle roasting in the molten state with free access of air . It was then mixed ...
... furnaces , whereas the metal ran out of the Blei- berg furnace as it was formed . The ore , after grinding and washing , was first converted to sulphate by gentle roasting in the molten state with free access of air . It was then mixed ...
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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