A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... course rotation was said to be already old - established in part of Italy . This was winter grain - clover - fodder grass - fallow . Though including two years of animal - feed production it did not eliminate the break for fallow , so ...
... course rotation was said to be already old - established in part of Italy . This was winter grain - clover - fodder grass - fallow . Though including two years of animal - feed production it did not eliminate the break for fallow , so ...
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... course of masonry in Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse , 1759 . cutting a by - pass for the river Avon . This work was ... course would act virtually as a solid disk of stone ( figure 263 ) . The lower courses consisted partly of the solid ...
... course of masonry in Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse , 1759 . cutting a by - pass for the river Avon . This work was ... course would act virtually as a solid disk of stone ( figure 263 ) . The lower courses consisted partly of the solid ...
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... course into many winding , shallow channels was a serious impediment . The Canal de Miribel was therefore made just downstream of Lyons . By a system of dams and dikes the water was confined in this single course , but the speed of the ...
... course into many winding , shallow channels was a serious impediment . The Canal de Miribel was therefore made just downstream of Lyons . By a system of dams and dikes the water was confined in this single course , but the speed of the ...
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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 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