A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... stone could be quarried near at hand , stone building was traditional : in well wooded parts of the country hardwood framing with daub - and - wattle infilling persisted into the eighteenth century . However , widespread clearing for ...
... stone could be quarried near at hand , stone building was traditional : in well wooded parts of the country hardwood framing with daub - and - wattle infilling persisted into the eighteenth century . However , widespread clearing for ...
Page 532
... stones must be executed with the greatest care and strictly according to the foregoing directions , or otherwise the stone will become loose and in time may work up to the sur- face of the road . When the work is properly executed , no ...
... stones must be executed with the greatest care and strictly according to the foregoing directions , or otherwise the stone will become loose and in time may work up to the sur- face of the road . When the work is properly executed , no ...
Page 534
... stone , or flint , so selected , prepared and laid , as to be impervious to water ; and this cannot be effected , unless the greatest care be taken , that no earth , clay , chalk , or other matter , that will hold water , be mixed with ...
... stone , or flint , so selected , prepared and laid , as to be impervious to water ; and this cannot be effected , unless the greatest care be taken , that no earth , clay , chalk , or other matter , that will hold water , be mixed with ...
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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