A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... salt , such as was suitable for the leaner , white fishes . As the Egyptians had long before discovered , an oily fish could be better preserved in a jar by covering with a salt brine , which , as we know , impedes the access of ...
... salt , such as was suitable for the leaner , white fishes . As the Egyptians had long before discovered , an oily fish could be better preserved in a jar by covering with a salt brine , which , as we know , impedes the access of ...
Page 50
... salt and piled again to drain . After this they were spread out on the beach , flesh up during the day , flesh down ... salt produced what was termed salt - burn ; if the fish had too much sun , the skin lifted off ; fish bled ...
... salt and piled again to drain . After this they were spread out on the beach , flesh up during the day , flesh down ... salt produced what was termed salt - burn ; if the fish had too much sun , the skin lifted off ; fish bled ...
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... salt gave a product with the appeal of oriental porcelain or European delft . The first step towards a white ... salt - glaze was being produced , salt was thrown into the red - hot kiln . In the heat of the kiln , the salt reacts with ...
... salt gave a product with the appeal of oriental porcelain or European delft . The first step towards a white ... salt - glaze was being produced , salt was thrown into the red - hot kiln . In the heat of the kiln , the salt reacts with ...
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