A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... extremely ancient , having been known to the Romans . It may have fallen into desuetude in Britain and have been revived after the sixteenth century , but there is reason to believe that it was uninterrupted in Cheshire , where it ...
... extremely ancient , having been known to the Romans . It may have fallen into desuetude in Britain and have been revived after the sixteenth century , but there is reason to believe that it was uninterrupted in Cheshire , where it ...
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... extremely ingenious , but it does not depend on mechanical ingenuity . Its principle was used later by other engineers , as will be seen . A master copy having thus been prepared , the circle to be graduated was fixed above the plate ...
... extremely ingenious , but it does not depend on mechanical ingenuity . Its principle was used later by other engineers , as will be seen . A master copy having thus been prepared , the circle to be graduated was fixed above the plate ...
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... extremely unpopular in Holland . When in 1828 and again in the twentieth century the merchants of Antwerp clamoured for the canal to be finally cut , the Dutch opposed the proposal with every means in their power . Many Belgian ...
... extremely unpopular in Holland . When in 1828 and again in the twentieth century the merchants of Antwerp clamoured for the canal to be finally cut , the Dutch opposed the proposal with every means in their power . Many Belgian ...
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