A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... solid fat extensively used in the manufacture of margarine and soap . The oil is extracted partly from the thick heat- insulating coating of blubber that envelops the whale's body beneath the skin , partly from the bones , and partly ...
... solid fat extensively used in the manufacture of margarine and soap . The oil is extracted partly from the thick heat- insulating coating of blubber that envelops the whale's body beneath the skin , partly from the bones , and partly ...
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... solid Peak stones , quarried in Derbyshire ; ( b ) French burr stones , produced from French quarries in small blocks which were cemented together with plaster of Paris to form the required size ; and ( c ) blue stones or cullin stones ...
... solid Peak stones , quarried in Derbyshire ; ( b ) French burr stones , produced from French quarries in small blocks which were cemented together with plaster of Paris to form the required size ; and ( c ) blue stones or cullin stones ...
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... solid lava . Medieval fortresses are known to have been reduced by tunnelling under corner towers , and then setting fire to the shoring that held up the roof . The Languedoc canal , built between 1661 and 1681 , included tunnels in its ...
... solid lava . Medieval fortresses are known to have been reduced by tunnelling under corner towers , and then setting fire to the shoring that held up the roof . The Languedoc canal , built between 1661 and 1681 , included tunnels in its ...
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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