A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... quarry was the humpback whale , which generally sinks when dead ; the hunters therefore brought two barges alongside and secured them to the animal before death to support it and carry it to the shore - station . When the dead whale was ...
... quarry was the humpback whale , which generally sinks when dead ; the hunters therefore brought two barges alongside and secured them to the animal before death to support it and carry it to the shore - station . When the dead whale was ...
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... quarries in small blocks which were cemented together with plaster of Paris to form the required size ; and ( c ) blue stones or cullin stones , which were solid German stones quarried at Cologne , whence their name . Today composition ...
... quarries in small blocks which were cemented together with plaster of Paris to form the required size ; and ( c ) blue stones or cullin stones , which were solid German stones quarried at Cologne , whence their name . Today composition ...
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... quarries , as at Froghall in Staffordshire , or carried canal cargoes down to a river - wharf , as at Morwellham on the Tavistock canal , or delivered them to a works , as at Coalbrookdale on the Shropshire canal . Lastly , a few ...
... quarries , as at Froghall in Staffordshire , or carried canal cargoes down to a river - wharf , as at Morwellham on the Tavistock canal , or delivered them to a works , as at Coalbrookdale on the Shropshire canal . Lastly , a few ...
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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