A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... followed in the comparatively small area comprising the present - day Belgium and Holland , where differences in the soils and the level of the water - table make such variations necessary . It was the treatment of the light sandy soils ...
... followed in the comparatively small area comprising the present - day Belgium and Holland , where differences in the soils and the level of the water - table make such variations necessary . It was the treatment of the light sandy soils ...
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... followed in Holland at the end of the eighteenth century . On the light land in that country , the improved three - course rotation was generally followed ; rye , rye , and buckwheat . On the unploughed stubble of the second - year rye ...
... followed in Holland at the end of the eighteenth century . On the light land in that country , the improved three - course rotation was generally followed ; rye , rye , and buckwheat . On the unploughed stubble of the second - year rye ...
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... followed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century . One was the true alternate husbandry of straw crop - green crop regularly , or nearly regu- larly . The other was a type of convertible husbandry : some years of cropping with ...
... followed in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century . One was the true alternate husbandry of straw crop - green crop regularly , or nearly regu- larly . The other was a type of convertible husbandry : some years of cropping with ...
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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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