A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... taken care to thin the fruit as much as he could before this annual festival . The trees were ever so old and gnarled , and crooked , and encrusted with a pale sea - green parasitical growth , which was born of the salt breeze that ...
... taken care to thin the fruit as much as he could before this annual festival . The trees were ever so old and gnarled , and crooked , and encrusted with a pale sea - green parasitical growth , which was born of the salt breeze that ...
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... taken now , or has been taken recently , can prevent that fcarcity ? — Certainly not ; what I have stated applies to a longer period than that . Notwithstanding what is faid in the Report alluded to , has not the fupply of large timber ...
... taken now , or has been taken recently , can prevent that fcarcity ? — Certainly not ; what I have stated applies to a longer period than that . Notwithstanding what is faid in the Report alluded to , has not the fupply of large timber ...
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... Taken. for. a. Ride. 8.1. Cities. of. Ghosts: Bringing. People. Back. In. This book has been a journey through the history ... taken for a ride literally and in a more figurative sense. The rationale behind the reform, which centred on the ...
... Taken. for. a. Ride. 8.1. Cities. of. Ghosts: Bringing. People. Back. In. This book has been a journey through the history ... taken for a ride literally and in a more figurative sense. The rationale behind the reform, which centred on the ...
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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