A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... land- owners allowed their tenants to grow crops besides the winter and summer corn . The tenant was free to replace the cereals by flax , weld , rape seed or hemp , at his own risk . ' From this time onwards cole - seed , beans ...
... land- owners allowed their tenants to grow crops besides the winter and summer corn . The tenant was free to replace the cereals by flax , weld , rape seed or hemp , at his own risk . ' From this time onwards cole - seed , beans ...
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... land , the nineteenth that of heavy land . Light land does not need a great deal of drainage ; heavy land does , and this was one of the problems not finally solved until the invention of the tubular drain - pipe , about 1800 , and of ...
... land , the nineteenth that of heavy land . Light land does not need a great deal of drainage ; heavy land does , and this was one of the problems not finally solved until the invention of the tubular drain - pipe , about 1800 , and of ...
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... land - forms to be clearly visua- lized and the altitude and gradient of the land - surface at any point to be ascer- tained . Before the eighteenth century none of these conditions was satisfied by land - maps , which commonly employed ...
... land - forms to be clearly visua- lized and the altitude and gradient of the land - surface at any point to be ascer- tained . Before the eighteenth century none of these conditions was satisfied by land - maps , which commonly employed ...
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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