A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... consisted of a rectangular trough along which straw was moved by hand . As the straw reached the end of the trough ... consisting of a lever hinged to a trestle , appeared after 1800. This implement acted by downward pressure of the ...
... consisted of a rectangular trough along which straw was moved by hand . As the straw reached the end of the trough ... consisting of a lever hinged to a trestle , appeared after 1800. This implement acted by downward pressure of the ...
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... consisted of a horizontal rope drum , 12 to 16 ft in diameter , built round a vertical axis , the foot of which turned on a stone or an iron casting and the head pivot of which was supported by a long span - beam resting at its end upon ...
... consisted of a horizontal rope drum , 12 to 16 ft in diameter , built round a vertical axis , the foot of which turned on a stone or an iron casting and the head pivot of which was supported by a long span - beam resting at its end upon ...
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... consisted of a wrought iron chamber 4 ft long , 3 ft high , and 2 ft wide , similar to the wagon - head steam- boiler , and set in brickwork over a grate . A cold blast entered at one end and passed out to the tuyère at the other end ...
... consisted of a wrought iron chamber 4 ft long , 3 ft high , and 2 ft wide , similar to the wagon - head steam- boiler , and set in brickwork over a grate . A cold blast entered at one end and passed out to the tuyère at the other end ...
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 electric engine England English Europe fallow farming figure 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 Royal 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