A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... established places . The last quarter of the century saw salt - glazed stoneware , in the produc- tion of which Staffordshire had been pre - eminent , give way to fluid - glazed cream - coloured ware . The production of stoneware did ...
... established places . The last quarter of the century saw salt - glazed stoneware , in the produc- tion of which Staffordshire had been pre - eminent , give way to fluid - glazed cream - coloured ware . The production of stoneware did ...
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... establishing public wells , and not until the nineteenth century were underground catchments , surface - water dams , and ... established in Helsinki in 1876 . 5363.4 kk At the beginning of the nineteenth century the supply of SANITARY ...
... establishing public wells , and not until the nineteenth century were underground catchments , surface - water dams , and ... established in Helsinki in 1876 . 5363.4 kk At the beginning of the nineteenth century the supply of SANITARY ...
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... established such a school . In February 1747 the École des Ponts et Chausées was opened , with Perronet as its first director . The school was directed by the department of home affairs , and fifty promising young scholars were selected ...
... established such a school . In February 1747 the École des Ponts et Chausées was opened , with Perronet as its first director . The school was directed by the department of home affairs , and fifty promising young scholars were selected ...
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