A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... construction that had to be planned , financed , and organized . Bridge - building continued along the lines described in volume III , but with a tendency to lighter and bolder construction . The power of steam , first developed for the ...
... construction that had to be planned , financed , and organized . Bridge - building continued along the lines described in volume III , but with a tendency to lighter and bolder construction . The power of steam , first developed for the ...
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... construction , of the form shown in figure 254. The span was 130 ft , but the bridge weighed only 173 tons , showing a considerable economy on the Coalbrookdale design . The sup- FIGURE 254 - Telford's iron bridge at Buildwas . 1795 ...
... construction , of the form shown in figure 254. The span was 130 ft , but the bridge weighed only 173 tons , showing a considerable economy on the Coalbrookdale design . The sup- FIGURE 254 - Telford's iron bridge at Buildwas . 1795 ...
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... construction . The era of modern road - building had begun . Railways had become a serious menace to good road construction in the Old World also . As early as 1839 it was said : ' If the railways yield these supposed commercial ...
... construction . The era of modern road - building had begun . Railways had become a serious menace to good road construction in the Old World also . As early as 1839 it was said : ' If the railways yield these supposed commercial ...
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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 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