A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... improvements had been made in the management of both arable and grassland . This had been assisted by the design of new and improved implements , not the least of which was the Rotherham plough ( p 2 ) , innumerable horse - hoes and ...
... improvements had been made in the management of both arable and grassland . This had been assisted by the design of new and improved implements , not the least of which was the Rotherham plough ( p 2 ) , innumerable horse - hoes and ...
Page 101
... improved considerably . Closed coking - ovens of brick , in shape resembling a beehive , began to be used in place of open piles similar to those in which charcoal was made ( figure 56 ) . Of greater importance was wider adoption of ...
... improved considerably . Closed coking - ovens of brick , in shape resembling a beehive , began to be used in place of open piles similar to those in which charcoal was made ( figure 56 ) . Of greater importance was wider adoption of ...
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... improvements took place before 1824 , and that before that year ' no machinery in Great Britain was so barbarous as that in the throwing trade ' [ 2 ] . The duties were relaxed in 1826 , and new and improved machines began to be ...
... improvements took place before 1824 , and that before that year ' no machinery in Great Britain was so barbarous as that in the throwing trade ' [ 2 ] . The duties were relaxed in 1826 , and new and improved machines began to be ...
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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