A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... increased beyond this rate without appreciable loss as the height of the fall and the diameter of the wheel in- crease , and that a wheel 24 ft high may move at the rate of 6 ft per second without any considerable loss of power ...
... increased beyond this rate without appreciable loss as the height of the fall and the diameter of the wheel in- crease , and that a wheel 24 ft high may move at the rate of 6 ft per second without any considerable loss of power ...
Page 349
... increased the risks to health . Booth pro- gressively altered his glazing process from a simple dusting with lead ore to dipping in a slip of red- or white - lead with clay and flint , and finally to lead com- pounds and flint according ...
... increased the risks to health . Booth pro- gressively altered his glazing process from a simple dusting with lead ore to dipping in a slip of red- or white - lead with clay and flint , and finally to lead com- pounds and flint according ...
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... increasing load until the load reached the critical value , when sudden collapse occurred . Young considered the cases ... increased . His equations for these two cases were rediscovered in the twentieth century , and put forward as new ...
... increasing load until the load reached the critical value , when sudden collapse occurred . Young considered the cases ... increased . His equations for these two cases were rediscovered in the twentieth century , and put forward as new ...
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