A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... widely as the sulphide , galena , but also as sulphate , carbonate , phosphate , chloride , and other forms . Throughout this period , however , it was smelted chiefly from galena . In the nineteenth century several methods , tradi ...
... widely as the sulphide , galena , but also as sulphate , carbonate , phosphate , chloride , and other forms . Throughout this period , however , it was smelted chiefly from galena . In the nineteenth century several methods , tradi ...
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... widely practised in Europe and k 9 FT8 12 INS . FIGURE 89 - Purification of gold by chlorine at Sydney , c 1867. The gold is melted in the crucible ( g ) and chlorine is admitted through the pipe ( k ) . America ( figure 88 ) . Vessels ...
... widely practised in Europe and k 9 FT8 12 INS . FIGURE 89 - Purification of gold by chlorine at Sydney , c 1867. The gold is melted in the crucible ( g ) and chlorine is admitted through the pipe ( k ) . America ( figure 88 ) . Vessels ...
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... widely in France than in most parts of England , where opposition to it was strenuously main- tained until the great depression of 1816. The first rotary machine was invented by an American , Samuel Dorr , and patented in England in ...
... widely in France than in most parts of England , where opposition to it was strenuously main- tained until the great depression of 1816. The first rotary machine was invented by an American , Samuel Dorr , and patented in England in ...
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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