A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 219
... weight ought to be found to have increased by the whole of the quantity of the matter of fire which entered during the calcination . . . . If , on the contrary . . . the increase in weight of the metallic calx is not due to the ...
... weight ought to be found to have increased by the whole of the quantity of the matter of fire which entered during the calcination . . . . If , on the contrary . . . the increase in weight of the metallic calx is not due to the ...
Page 224
... weights of the oxygen and carbon atoms . Working in this way Dalton was able to construct a table of ' atomic weights ' of the elements , that is , the relative weights of their atoms taking the weight of the hydrogen atom as unity . By ...
... weights of the oxygen and carbon atoms . Working in this way Dalton was able to construct a table of ' atomic weights ' of the elements , that is , the relative weights of their atoms taking the weight of the hydrogen atom as unity . By ...
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... weights placed on a vertical metal plate which descended the length of three brass columns . An escape- ment with ... weight took up almost the whole height of this cylinder . The horizontal dial covered the glass box . Clocks 6 and 8 ...
... weights placed on a vertical metal plate which descended the length of three brass columns . An escape- ment with ... weight took up almost the whole height of this cylinder . The horizontal dial covered the glass box . Clocks 6 and 8 ...
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