A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 72
Page 163
... heat , not only in calorimetry and temperature measurement , but most of all in the rise of the new science of thermodynamics . The foundation of thermodynamics was laid by Sadi Carnot ( 1796–1832 ) in his ' Motive Power of Heat ' [ 16 ] ...
... heat , not only in calorimetry and temperature measurement , but most of all in the rise of the new science of thermodynamics . The foundation of thermodynamics was laid by Sadi Carnot ( 1796–1832 ) in his ' Motive Power of Heat ' [ 16 ] ...
Page 218
... heating . To Priestley's mind , therefore , heat should have had no effect on the calx of mercury , and one wonders what freak of thought led him to try this particular experiment . However that may be , the result was momentous , for ...
... heating . To Priestley's mind , therefore , heat should have had no effect on the calx of mercury , and one wonders what freak of thought led him to try this particular experiment . However that may be , the result was momentous , for ...
Page 268
... Heat Company ' for providing our streets and houses with light and heat ... as they are now supplied with water ' . Though he promised , in extravagant language , preposterous profits to subscribers , he also had what Boulton and Watt ...
... Heat Company ' for providing our streets and houses with light and heat ... as they are now supplied with water ' . Though he promised , in extravagant language , preposterous profits to subscribers , he also had what Boulton and Watt ...
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 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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