A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... necessary for growth , Andrew Ure pro- nounced that children suffered no harm working twelve hours a day in mills lighted by gas . If gas must bear some of the responsibility for the intolerably long hours of labour in the early ...
... necessary for growth , Andrew Ure pro- nounced that children suffered no harm working twelve hours a day in mills lighted by gas . If gas must bear some of the responsibility for the intolerably long hours of labour in the early ...
Page 372
... necessary to construct a carriage to convey it from the iron - foundry to the glass - house . It was afterwards mounted on castors ( cf figure 201 ) , so that , un- like the stationary copper tables , it could be moved to the mouths of ...
... necessary to construct a carriage to convey it from the iron - foundry to the glass - house . It was afterwards mounted on castors ( cf figure 201 ) , so that , un- like the stationary copper tables , it could be moved to the mouths of ...
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... necessary . In the case of Edin- burgh the reverse took place : the municipality handed over its supply to a com- pany in 1819 , for the sum of £ 30 000 . In 1840 a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to in- quire ...
... necessary . In the case of Edin- burgh the reverse took place : the municipality handed over its supply to a com- pany in 1819 , for the sum of £ 30 000 . In 1840 a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to in- quire ...
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