A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine state of comminution . Again , the clover crop fed the soil , as the farmers knew without being able to explain : only comparatively recently has science discovered that bacteria in the ...
... natural growth and kept the top soil in a fine state of comminution . Again , the clover crop fed the soil , as the farmers knew without being able to explain : only comparatively recently has science discovered that bacteria in the ...
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... natural philosophers . In 1618 Jean Tardin studied a burning seepage of natural gas and concluded that it had something in common with the flames from burning oil or coal [ 1 ] . In 1667 Thomas Shirley ( 1638-78 ) sent a communication ...
... natural philosophers . In 1618 Jean Tardin studied a burning seepage of natural gas and concluded that it had something in common with the flames from burning oil or coal [ 1 ] . In 1667 Thomas Shirley ( 1638-78 ) sent a communication ...
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... natural philo- sophy at Glasgow University , and from then until his death gave lectures which he invited artisans to attend in their working clothes . His work was continued at Glasgow , and later in London , by George Birkbeck . So ...
... natural philo- sophy at Glasgow University , and from then until his death gave lectures which he invited artisans to attend in their working clothes . His work was continued at Glasgow , and later in London , by George Birkbeck . So ...
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