A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 292
... later for coarse yarns , wet - spun being stronger and more silky in appearance . These methods of applying pressure to the fibres could not produce a perfectly regular yarn . The discovery of a superior method of preparation was the ...
... later for coarse yarns , wet - spun being stronger and more silky in appearance . These methods of applying pressure to the fibres could not produce a perfectly regular yarn . The discovery of a superior method of preparation was the ...
Page 423
... later , was that his executors for a time engaged Richard Roberts ( p 428 ) as a pattern - maker . The next advance ... later became his superintendent . John Farey , writing some fifty years later , described Bramah's factory thus ...
... later , was that his executors for a time engaged Richard Roberts ( p 428 ) as a pattern - maker . The next advance ... later became his superintendent . John Farey , writing some fifty years later , described Bramah's factory thus ...
Page 545
... later in Italian cities . One of the first roads to be paved with bricks was that leading from The Hague to Scheveningen . Brick pavements had some suc- cess in the United States , where they were first introduced at Charleston ( 1870 ) ...
... later in Italian cities . One of the first roads to be paved with bricks was that leading from The Hague to Scheveningen . Brick pavements had some suc- cess in the United States , where they were first introduced at Charleston ( 1870 ) ...
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