A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... improvements had been made in the management of both arable and grassland . This had been assisted by the design of new and improved implements , not the least of which was the Rotherham plough ( p 2 ) , innumerable horse - hoes and ...
... improvements had been made in the management of both arable and grassland . This had been assisted by the design of new and improved implements , not the least of which was the Rotherham plough ( p 2 ) , innumerable horse - hoes and ...
Page 101
... improved considerably . Closed coking - ovens of brick , in shape resembling a beehive , began to be used in place of open piles similar to those in which charcoal was made ( figure 56 ) . Of greater importance was wider adoption of ...
... improved considerably . Closed coking - ovens of brick , in shape resembling a beehive , began to be used in place of open piles similar to those in which charcoal was made ( figure 56 ) . Of greater importance was wider adoption of ...
Page 311
... improved machinery had ' up to a very recent period ' been made for throwing silk . The improvements did not involve any fundamental changes in the throwing processes , and were mainly constructional alterations in the machinery . For ...
... improved machinery had ' up to a very recent period ' been made for throwing silk . The improvements did not involve any fundamental changes in the throwing processes , and were mainly constructional alterations in the machinery . For ...
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