A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... thicknesses which revolved at F FIGURE 167 - Roberts's power loom , side view . D , E , F , H , and M as in figure ... thickness of each plate , thus bringing the appropriate shuttle into place . These contrivances eventually gave way ...
... thicknesses which revolved at F FIGURE 167 - Roberts's power loom , side view . D , E , F , H , and M as in figure ... thickness of each plate , thus bringing the appropriate shuttle into place . These contrivances eventually gave way ...
Page 368
... thickness . The blower had to manipulate the molten metal by swinging and rotating it so as to ensure even thickness throughout the cylinder as well as correct overall size . For fashioning a sheet of glass in this way five types of ...
... thickness . The blower had to manipulate the molten metal by swinging and rotating it so as to ensure even thickness throughout the cylinder as well as correct overall size . For fashioning a sheet of glass in this way five types of ...
Page 534
... thickness of such a road is immaterial ; as to its strength for carrying weight , this object is obtained by a dry surface , over which the road is to be placed as a covering , to preserve it in that state : experience having shewn ...
... thickness of such a road is immaterial ; as to its strength for carrying weight , this object is obtained by a dry surface , over which the road is to be placed as a covering , to preserve it in that state : experience having shewn ...
Contents
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