A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 281
... moved in . The cardings , drawn in short lengths from cards arranged horizontally on the doffer cylinder , were placed side by side on this cloth and moved forward by its rotation , new lengths having constantly to be pieced to the ...
... moved in . The cardings , drawn in short lengths from cards arranged horizontally on the doffer cylinder , were placed side by side on this cloth and moved forward by its rotation , new lengths having constantly to be pieced to the ...
Page 289
... moved all the machinery F wwwwww 90000- C K H B FIGURE 159 - Side view of headstock of Roberts's self - acting mule . ( AA ) Steam - driven pulleys ; ( BB ) driving belts ; ( c ) driving shaft ; ( D ) scroll pulley for inward journey ...
... moved all the machinery F wwwwww 90000- C K H B FIGURE 159 - Side view of headstock of Roberts's self - acting mule . ( AA ) Steam - driven pulleys ; ( BB ) driving belts ; ( c ) driving shaft ; ( D ) scroll pulley for inward journey ...
Page 301
... moved twice ( once forward and once back ) for every movement of the B E H G FIGURE 166 — Roberts's power loom , front view . ( A ) Wheel on main shaft , driving wheel ( B ) on tappet or wiper shaft ( C ) ; ( DD ) tappets or excentric ...
... moved twice ( once forward and once back ) for every movement of the B E H G FIGURE 166 — Roberts's power loom , front view . ( A ) Wheel on main shaft , driving wheel ( B ) on tappet or wiper shaft ( C ) ; ( DD ) tappets or excentric ...
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