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Both methods were in use 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 ...
Both methods were in use 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 ...
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Wilkinson's invention was an isolated one and his only other connexion with the machine - tool builders , to be mentioned later , was that his executors for a time engaged Richard Roberts ( p 428 ) as a pattern - maker .
Wilkinson's invention was an isolated one and his only other connexion with the machine - tool builders , to be mentioned later , was that his executors for a time engaged Richard Roberts ( p 428 ) as a pattern - maker .
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They were generally intro- duced in Dutch cities ( p 529 ) during the seventeenth century , and a hundred years later in Italian cities . One of the first roads to be paved with bricks was that leading from The Hague to Scheveningen .
They were generally intro- duced in Dutch cities ( p 529 ) during the seventeenth century , and a hundred years later in Italian cities . One of the first roads to be paved with bricks was that leading from The Hague to Scheveningen .
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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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| Title | A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850 Volume 4 of A History of Technology, Trevor Illtyd Williams |
| Author | Charles Singer |
| Editors | Charles Singer, Trevor Illtyd Williams |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1954 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 28 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0198229054, 9780198229056 |
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