A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... consisted of a rectangular trough along which straw was moved by hand . As the straw reached the end of the trough ... consisting of a lever hinged to a trestle , appeared after 1800. This implement acted by downward pressure of the ...
... consisted of a rectangular trough along which straw was moved by hand . As the straw reached the end of the trough ... consisting of a lever hinged to a trestle , appeared after 1800. This implement acted by downward pressure of the ...
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... consisted of a small fork projecting through the reed over which the weft passed . If the weft failed to pass the fork fell back and set off a train of motion which stopped the machine . Out of the many devices produced for an automatic ...
... consisted of a small fork projecting through the reed over which the weft passed . If the weft failed to pass the fork fell back and set off a train of motion which stopped the machine . Out of the many devices produced for an automatic ...
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... consisted in steeping the cocoons for three or four days , with frequent changes of water , boiling half an hour in a ley of ashes , straining , washing , and drying in the sun . The combing or dressing operation consisted in passing ...
... consisted in steeping the cocoons for three or four days , with frequent changes of water , boiling half an hour in a ley of ashes , straining , washing , and drying in the sun . The combing or dressing operation consisted in passing ...
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 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