A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... nearly the greatest effect possible ; but it has also been practically shown that the velocity of high wheels may be increased beyond this rate without appreciable loss as the height of the fall and the diameter of the wheel in- crease ...
... nearly the greatest effect possible ; but it has also been practically shown that the velocity of high wheels may be increased beyond this rate without appreciable loss as the height of the fall and the diameter of the wheel in- crease ...
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... nearly ninety years before a really practicable scheme was evolved . The intervening period was , as we shall see , filled with suggestions and experiments , mostly of a somewhat unpractical nature but all indicative of that instinctive ...
... nearly ninety years before a really practicable scheme was evolved . The intervening period was , as we shall see , filled with suggestions and experiments , mostly of a somewhat unpractical nature but all indicative of that instinctive ...
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... nearly 350 miles had been laid . A second attempt was made in the spring of 1858 , but fresh disasters occurred and it was not until August of the same year that the laying of the cable was completed . Unfortunately it was far from ...
... nearly 350 miles had been laid . A second attempt was made in the spring of 1858 , but fresh disasters occurred and it was not until August of the same year that the laying of the cable was completed . Unfortunately it was far from ...
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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