A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... rotation was said to be already old - established in part of Italy . This was winter grain - clover - fodder grass - fallow . Though including two years of animal - feed production it did not eliminate the break for fallow , so that ...
... rotation was said to be already old - established in part of Italy . This was winter grain - clover - fodder grass - fallow . Though including two years of animal - feed production it did not eliminate the break for fallow , so that ...
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... rotations of six , nine , and twelve courses , including an occasional fallow , which continued until the beginning ... rotation , in which grain - crops were less frequently cultivated than green crops . The regular alternate husbandry ...
... rotations of six , nine , and twelve courses , including an occasional fallow , which continued until the beginning ... rotation , in which grain - crops were less frequently cultivated than green crops . The regular alternate husbandry ...
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... rotation had been known since the sixteenth century , but lathes work- 1725 1725 1750 1775 WILKINSON 1800 ironmaster , invented boring machine 1750 BRAMAH inventor and manufacturer BENTHAM 18 25 Inspector - General of naval works ...
... rotation had been known since the sixteenth century , but lathes work- 1725 1725 1750 1775 WILKINSON 1800 ironmaster , invented boring machine 1750 BRAMAH inventor and manufacturer BENTHAM 18 25 Inspector - General of naval works ...
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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