A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... operation of blasting much less hazardous , but black powder was still used . Undercutting the coal by hand was very hard and slow work , and early attempts to mechanize this operation were made . Even today , however , no coal - 80 ...
... operation of blasting much less hazardous , but black powder was still used . Undercutting the coal by hand was very hard and slow work , and early attempts to mechanize this operation were made . Even today , however , no coal - 80 ...
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... operation so momentous in its results as to have become familiarly known by the simple title of ' Lavoisier's experiment ' ( figure 121 ) . It consisted in moderately heating mercury in contact with a limited volume of air until no ...
... operation so momentous in its results as to have become familiarly known by the simple title of ' Lavoisier's experiment ' ( figure 121 ) . It consisted in moderately heating mercury in contact with a limited volume of air until no ...
Page 365
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the job , and by regulating the ...
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the job , and by regulating the ...
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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