A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... covered with oak forest , broom , bramble , and gorse . France possesses widely varying soil - conditions , elevation , and climate . By 1760 maize had taken the place of the fallow in the crop - and - fallow rotation of the ...
... covered with oak forest , broom , bramble , and gorse . France possesses widely varying soil - conditions , elevation , and climate . By 1760 maize had taken the place of the fallow in the crop - and - fallow rotation of the ...
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... covered the whole drum . This made it possible greatly to increase the number of spindles . The rollers were driven by a clockwork mechanism which dropped out of gear when the carriage had receded to the proper point , and the carriage ...
... covered the whole drum . This made it possible greatly to increase the number of spindles . The rollers were driven by a clockwork mechanism which dropped out of gear when the carriage had receded to the proper point , and the carriage ...
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... covered with 1 inches of good gravel , free from clay or earth . Telford had wide experience of road - building in ... covering impenetrable to rain must then be placed over it in that dry state ; that the thickness of the road should ...
... covered with 1 inches of good gravel , free from clay or earth . Telford had wide experience of road - building in ... covering impenetrable to rain must then be placed over it in that dry state ; that the thickness of the road should ...
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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