A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... tion much better than ordinary air , and that its volume was equal to the dimi- nution in volume undergone by the air originally taken . When it was mixed with the inactive gas left in the first operation , the mixture was indistinguish ...
... tion much better than ordinary air , and that its volume was equal to the dimi- nution in volume undergone by the air originally taken . When it was mixed with the inactive gas left in the first operation , the mixture was indistinguish ...
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... tion of matter led to the establishment of quantitative chemistry ; the work of the pneumatic chemists led to the discovery of the true composition of air and water and to a satisfactory theory of combustion ; physical investigation of ...
... tion of matter led to the establishment of quantitative chemistry ; the work of the pneumatic chemists led to the discovery of the true composition of air and water and to a satisfactory theory of combustion ; physical investigation of ...
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... tion was undertaken is of some interest . Further developments in that direc- tion , combined with the studies of the elastic behaviour of materials by members of the Académie des Sciences and the Ponts et Chaussées were in due course ...
... tion was undertaken is of some interest . Further developments in that direc- tion , combined with the studies of the elastic behaviour of materials by members of the Académie des Sciences and the Ponts et Chaussées were in due course ...
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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