A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... supposed line of outcrop , and then , with luck , the vein will be laid bare . Hushing , no longer prac- tised in civilized countries , consists of damming a stream near the top of a hill or valley to form a small reservoir . When a ...
... supposed line of outcrop , and then , with luck , the vein will be laid bare . Hushing , no longer prac- tised in civilized countries , consists of damming a stream near the top of a hill or valley to form a small reservoir . When a ...
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... supposed to have been devised by Whit- worth while working at Maudslay's , but this claim is inconsistent with Nasmyth's statement , quoted earlier , that it was ' an old dodge ' . Holtzapffel ( 1806–47 ) , writing in 1846 , attributed ...
... supposed to have been devised by Whit- worth while working at Maudslay's , but this claim is inconsistent with Nasmyth's statement , quoted earlier , that it was ' an old dodge ' . Holtzapffel ( 1806–47 ) , writing in 1846 , attributed ...
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... supposed commercial advantages , we shall have no reason to regret their superseding stage - coaches . ' By 1800 the average highway carried several thousand tons of goods a year , as compared with a thousand tons in the Middle Ages ...
... supposed commercial advantages , we shall have no reason to regret their superseding stage - coaches . ' By 1800 the average highway carried several thousand tons of goods a year , as compared with a thousand tons in the Middle Ages ...
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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