A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... remained . Denmark and Schleswig - Holstein were handicapped in the eighteenth century by the heavy incidence of ... remained rather primitive . The implements were crude and rather inefficient , but cereals and pulse were cultivated ...
... remained . Denmark and Schleswig - Holstein were handicapped in the eighteenth century by the heavy incidence of ... remained rather primitive . The implements were crude and rather inefficient , but cereals and pulse were cultivated ...
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... remained as reacting spaces only ( figure 132 ) . The process having been made continuous by Jean Louis Holker ( 1770-1844 ) , it remained virtually unaltered until the introduction of the catalytic or contact process many years later ...
... remained as reacting spaces only ( figure 132 ) . The process having been made continuous by Jean Louis Holker ( 1770-1844 ) , it remained virtually unaltered until the introduction of the catalytic or contact process many years later ...
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... remained an insuperable obstacle until 1830 , when the Hungarian Count Szechenyi employed the engineer Vásráhelyi to survey the whole course of the lower river with a view to making it fully navigable . The count was tireless in his ...
... remained an insuperable obstacle until 1830 , when the Hungarian Count Szechenyi employed the engineer Vásráhelyi to survey the whole course of the lower river with a view to making it fully navigable . The count was tireless in his ...
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