A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... joints , and access of damp air to ironwork leads to the formation of rust . Rust occupies a much greater volume than the metal from which it is formed , and thus tends to force apart the masonry in which the iron is embedded . The ...
... joints , and access of damp air to ironwork leads to the formation of rust . Rust occupies a much greater volume than the metal from which it is formed , and thus tends to force apart the masonry in which the iron is embedded . The ...
Page 472
... joints through which a pull could be transmitted . Except in such great roofs as those of Notre - Dame , Paris , and Rheims Cathedral [ 15 ] the medieval carpenter tried to avoid them , as he had to depend on mortised joints and wooden ...
... joints through which a pull could be transmitted . Except in such great roofs as those of Notre - Dame , Paris , and Rheims Cathedral [ 15 ] the medieval carpenter tried to avoid them , as he had to depend on mortised joints and wooden ...
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... joints were made with clay . Frequently the joints broke apart and allowed the sewage to percolate into the surrounding ground . This gave rise to consider- able controversy between those who recommended pipes - among whom Sir Edwin ...
... joints were made with clay . Frequently the joints broke apart and allowed the sewage to percolate into the surrounding ground . This gave rise to consider- able controversy between those who recommended pipes - among whom Sir Edwin ...
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