A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... four or five years . Though quite different from the four - course system eventually evolved in Britain , that system owes its origin to Weston perhaps more than to any other individual . There had , however , been commercial contact ...
... four or five years . Though quite different from the four - course system eventually evolved in Britain , that system owes its origin to Weston perhaps more than to any other individual . There had , however , been commercial contact ...
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... four - course system may have developed here because the holdings were distributed between two or four fields , and in the earlier days the rotation may have been grain - crop and fallow alternately , or possibly three grain - crops and ...
... four - course system may have developed here because the holdings were distributed between two or four fields , and in the earlier days the rotation may have been grain - crop and fallow alternately , or possibly three grain - crops and ...
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... four great arches bearing upon and thrusting against massive abutment - towers or bastions within the body of the church at the four corners of the crossing . In the reconstruction of Ste - Geneviève , begun in 1757 , the architect ...
... four great arches bearing upon and thrusting against massive abutment - towers or bastions within the body of the church at the four corners of the crossing . In the reconstruction of Ste - Geneviève , begun in 1757 , the architect ...
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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