A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... light lands of Norfolk and Suffolk and the sandy lands across the sea . Merchants and traders must have discussed farming , and it is not unlikely that the English light - land farmers learned something of the Flemish methods in this ...
... light lands of Norfolk and Suffolk and the sandy lands across the sea . Merchants and traders must have discussed farming , and it is not unlikely that the English light - land farmers learned something of the Flemish methods in this ...
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... Light and Coke Company [ 18 ] ( figure 145 ) . The governor was virtually a miniature holder rising and falling with changes in pressure and actuating a valve according to its position . Clegg's successor at The Gas Light and Coke ...
... Light and Coke Company [ 18 ] ( figure 145 ) . The governor was virtually a miniature holder rising and falling with changes in pressure and actuating a valve according to its position . Clegg's successor at The Gas Light and Coke ...
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... light undertaking in the absence of cheap transport . So obvious , however , were the advantages of this white - burning clay that it was soon incorporated in a mixture with fine grit and sand , and a light coloured stoneware was made ...
... light undertaking in the absence of cheap transport . So obvious , however , were the advantages of this white - burning clay that it was soon incorporated in a mixture with fine grit and sand , and a light coloured stoneware was made ...
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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