A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... marble , grinding powder and pigments , sawing timber , fulling cloth , tanning , crushing oil - seeds , and making iron and paper , as well as for irrigation . The earliest known record of a watermill in England for grinding corn has ...
... marble , grinding powder and pigments , sawing timber , fulling cloth , tanning , crushing oil - seeds , and making iron and paper , as well as for irrigation . The earliest known record of a watermill in England for grinding corn has ...
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... marble ) to the naturally infusible Saxony clay . So hard is this red stoneware that it can easily be mistaken for jasper . By varying his raw materials , and particularly by using an earth from Aue , in the Erzgebirge , he soon ...
... marble ) to the naturally infusible Saxony clay . So hard is this red stoneware that it can easily be mistaken for jasper . By varying his raw materials , and particularly by using an earth from Aue , in the Erzgebirge , he soon ...
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... marble . Realization of this fact led to the destruction of much ancient statuary by medieval lime - burners and their suc- cessors . For adhesion , however , some of the darker limes were to be preferred , and some of them had the ...
... marble . Realization of this fact led to the destruction of much ancient statuary by medieval lime - burners and their suc- cessors . For adhesion , however , some of the darker limes were to be preferred , and some of them had the ...
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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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