A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 383
... lathe had an alternating rotary motion . For big jobs , turners used a lathe driven by a hemp or gut cord passing round a pulley . The driving - wheel was large ; it was fixed to the ground and operated by an assistant who turned the ...
... lathe had an alternating rotary motion . For big jobs , turners used a lathe driven by a hemp or gut cord passing round a pulley . The driving - wheel was large ; it was fixed to the ground and operated by an assistant who turned the ...
Page 385
... lathe and made it larger . He copied the idea of the lead - screw and carriage for the tool in machines for turning fusees and for guilloching.1 His lathe measured 140 cm in length . The carriage was moved by a lead - screw placed ...
... lathe and made it larger . He copied the idea of the lead - screw and carriage for the tool in machines for turning fusees and for guilloching.1 His lathe measured 140 cm in length . The carriage was moved by a lead - screw placed ...
Page 425
... lathe , but in isolation and without explanation . In the eighteenth century slide- rests were used on ornamental turning - lathes . About 1745 Jacques de Vaucanson ( p 384 ) made a lathe able to turn work up to 1 metre in length ; its ...
... lathe , but in isolation and without explanation . In the eighteenth century slide- rests were used on ornamental turning - lathes . About 1745 Jacques de Vaucanson ( p 384 ) made a lathe able to turn work up to 1 metre in length ; its ...
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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