A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... result was that crop - yields were low , and animals and their products were small . The great problem was to increase supplies of animal feed for use in winter . In some of the earliest printed books on farming , didactic writers in ...
... result was that crop - yields were low , and animals and their products were small . The great problem was to increase supplies of animal feed for use in winter . In some of the earliest printed books on farming , didactic writers in ...
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... resulting in the restoration of the silk - industry to its former prosperity , belongs to a later pericd ( p 320 ) ... result that in a few years satisfactory qualities were established and exports considerably increased . The basis of ...
... resulting in the restoration of the silk - industry to its former prosperity , belongs to a later pericd ( p 320 ) ... result that in a few years satisfactory qualities were established and exports considerably increased . The basis of ...
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... result of this latter activity ceramic evolution took place in three directions : ( a ) the production of a glassy ( soft paste ) substitute porcelain ; ( b ) the production of a true porcelain from European materials ; and ( c ) the ...
... result of this latter activity ceramic evolution took place in three directions : ( a ) the production of a glassy ( soft paste ) substitute porcelain ; ( b ) the production of a true porcelain from European materials ; and ( c ) 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