A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 18
Page 480
... columns sufficient to take the vertical load . The horizontal thrust he would transfer to the main walls of the building , and so avoid the obstruction by bastions in the body of the church . In channels within the joints of the masonry ...
... columns sufficient to take the vertical load . The horizontal thrust he would transfer to the main walls of the building , and so avoid the obstruction by bastions in the body of the church . In channels within the joints of the masonry ...
Page 481
... columns that carried its weight . The battle of pamphlets that had raged in 1770 , and had been checked only by Gauthey's arguments backed by the results of the tests , broke out anew in the 1790s . The building itself appeared to have ...
... columns that carried its weight . The battle of pamphlets that had raged in 1770 , and had been checked only by Gauthey's arguments backed by the results of the tests , broke out anew in the 1790s . The building itself appeared to have ...
Page 485
... columns . Unlike masonry columns , metal columns were not infrequently long and thin , and the tendency to instability - quite apart from the risk of crushing — to which Euler had drawn attention was found to be no longer negligible ...
... columns . Unlike masonry columns , metal columns were not infrequently long and thin , and the tendency to instability - quite apart from the risk of crushing — to which Euler had drawn attention was found to be no longer negligible ...
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 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agricultural beam became 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 diameter E. J. HOLMYARD early eighteenth century engine England English Europe fallow farming figure fish France French furnace glass heat horizontal husbandry Ibid important improved inches industrial revolution introduced invention inventor J. F. Horrabin John John Smeaton later lathe London machine machinery manufacture mechanical metal method mill mineral mines Newcomen Newcomen engine nineteenth century obtained operation oxide Paris patent Photograph by courtesy pipe piston plate porcelain practical produced pump river road rollers rotation Rotherham plough salt screw sewers shaft ships silk Smeaton Staffordshire steam steam-engine steel stones sulphuric acid surface telegraph tion vertical ware water-wheels watermills Watt whales wheel wooden wrought iron