A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... Similar work was done on pigs , often with an admixture of Chinese blood . Horses for the plough , the wagon , and the coach , for riding , racing , and the cavalry , were essential in that age . Of these the plough- and cart - horse ...
... Similar work was done on pigs , often with an admixture of Chinese blood . Horses for the plough , the wagon , and the coach , for riding , racing , and the cavalry , were essential in that age . Of these the plough- and cart - horse ...
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... similar machine could be worked by compressed air ; a single- acting pneumatic drill is shown in figure 34. In the United States , Fowle pro- duced a similar steam - operated drill , but the modern prototype , the Ingersoll drill , was ...
... similar machine could be worked by compressed air ; a single- acting pneumatic drill is shown in figure 34. In the United States , Fowle pro- duced a similar steam - operated drill , but the modern prototype , the Ingersoll drill , was ...
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... similar sublimation , but with the admission of air to effect oxidation . A typical sublimation furnace of the period is shown in figure 70 . II . LEAD Lead occurs widely as the sulphide , galena , but also as sulphate , carbonate ...
... similar sublimation , but with the admission of air to effect oxidation . A typical sublimation furnace of the period is shown in figure 70 . II . LEAD Lead occurs widely as the sulphide , galena , but also as sulphate , carbonate ...
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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