A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... salt formed by solar evaporation on the Biscay coast . They split their cod and wet - salted it in barrels for sale either in that condition if the fish were large , or , if smaller , after drying in the open . British salt was for many ...
... salt formed by solar evaporation on the Biscay coast . They split their cod and wet - salted it in barrels for sale either in that condition if the fish were large , or , if smaller , after drying in the open . British salt was for many ...
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... salt and piled again to drain . After this they were spread out on the beach , flesh up during the day , flesh down ... salt produced what was termed salt - burn ; if the fish had too much sun , the skin lifted off ; fish bled ...
... salt and piled again to drain . After this they were spread out on the beach , flesh up during the day , flesh down ... salt produced what was termed salt - burn ; if the fish had too much sun , the skin lifted off ; fish bled ...
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... salt - glazed . On the common brown clay , however , neither lead nor salt gave a product with the appeal of oriental porcelain or European delft . The first step towards a white - bodied ware was the utilization by Thomas Miles of a ...
... salt - glazed . On the common brown clay , however , neither lead nor salt gave a product with the appeal of oriental porcelain or European delft . The first step towards a white - bodied ware was the utilization by Thomas Miles of a ...
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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