A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... took place towards its end . It was not , indeed , till well on in the nineteenth century that these countries , with the final abolition of serfdom and the rise of the co- operative movement , began to win their modern reputation for ...
... took place towards its end . It was not , indeed , till well on in the nineteenth century that these countries , with the final abolition of serfdom and the rise of the co- operative movement , began to win their modern reputation for ...
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... took place in following years . That these districts did not suffer from intolerable in- dustrial pollution may be attributed to the fortunate invention in 1836 of a means of absorbing the offending hydrogen chloride . This was the ...
... took place in following years . That these districts did not suffer from intolerable in- dustrial pollution may be attributed to the fortunate invention in 1836 of a means of absorbing the offending hydrogen chloride . This was the ...
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... took advantage of this ruling , and the final decision against him was not given . until 1785. Even so , his machines were expensive , and many attempts to find a satisfactory alternative were made in the late seventies and early ...
... took advantage of this ruling , and the final decision against him was not given . until 1785. Even so , his machines were expensive , and many attempts to find a satisfactory alternative were made in the late seventies and early ...
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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