A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... round and made of hemp . They consisted of several strands wrapped to form a com- posite rope . Instead of forming the strands into a round rope , many preferred to lay FIGURE 48 - Women coal - bearers , Scotland , early nineteenth ...
... round and made of hemp . They consisted of several strands wrapped to form a com- posite rope . Instead of forming the strands into a round rope , many preferred to lay FIGURE 48 - Women coal - bearers , Scotland , early nineteenth ...
Page 211
... round which the hoisting rope is wound . The operation of this hoisting mechanism is controlled by a lever system which raises or lowers the large wooden pulley at roof level , thereby tightening the chain round the revolving chain ...
... round which the hoisting rope is wound . The operation of this hoisting mechanism is controlled by a lever system which raises or lowers the large wooden pulley at roof level , thereby tightening the chain round the revolving chain ...
Page 284
... round sliver after drawing ; ( H ) doffer ; ( 1 ) crank and comb or doffing knife . The carding - machine became larger and more complicated ( figure 154 ) . The cotton was fed to the swift by a small , slower - moving cylinder , the ...
... round sliver after drawing ; ( H ) doffer ; ( 1 ) crank and comb or doffing knife . The carding - machine became larger and more complicated ( figure 154 ) . The cotton was fed to the swift by a small , slower - moving cylinder , 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