A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... appears to have been the first person to apply coal - gas on any scale to ballooning , but Faujas de Saint - Fond had suggested its use as early as 1783 , though without conviction . He proposed to rid the gas of carbon dioxide by ...
... appears to have been the first person to apply coal - gas on any scale to ballooning , but Faujas de Saint - Fond had suggested its use as early as 1783 , though without conviction . He proposed to rid the gas of carbon dioxide by ...
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... appears to cover the first actual use of bone - ash in the production of a porcelain , although the idea had certainly been mooted in Germany a century earlier . Macquer , at Sèvres , adopted it some six or seven years after Frye . At ...
... appears to cover the first actual use of bone - ash in the production of a porcelain , although the idea had certainly been mooted in Germany a century earlier . Macquer , at Sèvres , adopted it some six or seven years after Frye . At ...
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... appear in Clark's full account of the machinery exhibited in 1862. It appears , however , that steam - hammers , planers , shapers , slotters , screwing machines , punching machines , drilling machines , and radial drilling machines ...
... appear in Clark's full account of the machinery exhibited in 1862. It appears , however , that steam - hammers , planers , shapers , slotters , screwing machines , punching machines , drilling machines , and radial drilling machines ...
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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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