A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 92
Page 349
... increased the risks to health . Booth pro- gressively altered his glazing process from a simple dusting with lead ore to dipping in a slip of red- or white - lead with clay and flint , and finally to lead com- pounds and flint according ...
... increased the risks to health . Booth pro- gressively altered his glazing process from a simple dusting with lead ore to dipping in a slip of red- or white - lead with clay and flint , and finally to lead com- pounds and flint according ...
Page 483
... increasing load until the load reached the critical value , when sudden collapse occurred . Young considered the cases ... increased . His equations for these two cases were rediscovered in the twentieth century , and put forward as new ...
... increasing load until the load reached the critical value , when sudden collapse occurred . Young considered the cases ... increased . His equations for these two cases were rediscovered in the twentieth century , and put forward as new ...
Page 489
... increased four - fold between 1801 and 1851 , and the demand for water increased from 6 500 000 gallons a day in 1838 to 14 000 000 gallons a day a little over a decade later . To meet such demands , numerous joint stock companies were ...
... increased four - fold between 1801 and 1851 , and the demand for water increased from 6 500 000 gallons a day in 1838 to 14 000 000 gallons a day a little over a decade later . To meet such demands , numerous joint stock companies were ...
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 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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