A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1958 |
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... tons a year to 6100 tons . This represented a yearly saving of £ 10 830 , at the price of coal then ruling . By 1798 there were forty - five Boulton and Watt pumping - engines in use in Cornwall alone . Such engines , commonly known in ...
... tons a year to 6100 tons . This represented a yearly saving of £ 10 830 , at the price of coal then ruling . By 1798 there were forty - five Boulton and Watt pumping - engines in use in Cornwall alone . Such engines , commonly known in ...
Page 189
... tons without water , would easily pull much more than its specified load , and , as Trevithick said , ' was the first and only self - moving machine that ever was made to travel on a road with 25 tons at four miles per hour , and ...
... tons without water , would easily pull much more than its specified load , and , as Trevithick said , ' was the first and only self - moving machine that ever was made to travel on a road with 25 tons at four miles per hour , and ...
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... tons a year in 1812 , and 2000 tons in 1835 , in which year the price was £ 12 a ton . But this simple and lucrative method of making alum did not remain unrivalled for long . In 1845 , Peter Spence ( 1806-83 ) , who had been a chemical ...
... tons a year in 1812 , and 2000 tons in 1835 , in which year the price was £ 12 a ton . But this simple and lucrative method of making alum did not remain unrivalled for long . In 1845 , Peter Spence ( 1806-83 ) , who had been a chemical ...
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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 driving 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