A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... practice about 1830 it may be said that the standard prime mover for the larger mills and factories was the Watt jet - condensing beam - engine using steam at little more than atmospheric pres- sure . In smaller establishments , the ...
... practice about 1830 it may be said that the standard prime mover for the larger mills and factories was the Watt jet - condensing beam - engine using steam at little more than atmospheric pres- sure . In smaller establishments , the ...
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... practice until the firm gave up making gas - plant a few years later . He used cast iron horizontal retorts ( figure 144 ) , 4 ft long , single - ended and elliptical in section , roughly 2 ft by 1 ft . In 1810 he also experimented with ...
... practice until the firm gave up making gas - plant a few years later . He used cast iron horizontal retorts ( figure 144 ) , 4 ft long , single - ended and elliptical in section , roughly 2 ft by 1 ft . In 1810 he also experimented with ...
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... Practice of Gas - Lighting ' , pp . 322-36 . London . 1819 . [ 19 ] KING , W. B. " Treatise on the Science and Practice of the Manufacture and Distribu- tion of Coal Gas ' , Vol . 2 , p . 334. London . 1879 . [ 20 ] " Gas Apparatus and ...
... Practice of Gas - Lighting ' , pp . 322-36 . London . 1819 . [ 19 ] KING , W. B. " Treatise on the Science and Practice of the Manufacture and Distribu- tion of Coal Gas ' , Vol . 2 , p . 334. London . 1879 . [ 20 ] " Gas Apparatus and ...
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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