A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... material on pasture were readily observable , and a large demand for crushed bones arose . Some farmers installed grinding machinery ; others bought the material ready crushed . Later , bones were dissolved in sulphuric acid , and ...
... material on pasture were readily observable , and a large demand for crushed bones arose . Some farmers installed grinding machinery ; others bought the material ready crushed . Later , bones were dissolved in sulphuric acid , and ...
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... material was piled on scaffolds carried by timbers fixed between the walls of the lode , or else was left in situ as a support . In over- hand stoping ( figure 38 ) the procedure was reversed , except that driving was al- most always ...
... material was piled on scaffolds carried by timbers fixed between the walls of the lode , or else was left in situ as a support . In over- hand stoping ( figure 38 ) the procedure was reversed , except that driving was al- most always ...
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... material , relating load and distortion , but it remained for Young to define the ' elastic modulus'1 in a way that ... material . His ' height of the modulus ' was our Young's modulus divided by the density of the material . Young's ...
... material , relating load and distortion , but it remained for Young to define the ' elastic modulus'1 in a way that ... material . His ' height of the modulus ' was our Young's modulus divided by the density of the material . Young's ...
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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