A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... Rollers were originally made of wood or stone , but smooth cast iron rollers appeared in the early nineteenth century . When con- structed in two sections rotating independently , such rollers had less tendency to pull the plants out of ...
... Rollers were originally made of wood or stone , but smooth cast iron rollers appeared in the early nineteenth century . When con- structed in two sections rotating independently , such rollers had less tendency to pull the plants out of ...
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... rollers of the water - frame with the movable carriage of the jenny by placing the spindles on the carriage and the rollers where the spindles had stood in the jenny . The spinner drew back the carriage at the same rate as the rollers ...
... rollers of the water - frame with the movable carriage of the jenny by placing the spindles on the carriage and the rollers where the spindles had stood in the jenny . The spinner drew back the carriage at the same rate as the rollers ...
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... rollers and carriage , so that every sort of yarn could be spun . The mule was considerably improved before 1790. The horizontal roller round which the driving - belts of the spindles had passed ( as in the jenny ) was replaced by a ...
... rollers and carriage , so that every sort of yarn could be spun . The mule was considerably improved before 1790. The horizontal roller round which the driving - belts of the spindles had passed ( as in the jenny ) was replaced by a ...
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