A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... later by Smeaton , whose experiments are referred to later in this chapter . III . UNDERSHOT WHEELS In its most primitive form the vertical wheel was used for the raising of water for irrigation of land in the Far East ; the floats ...
... later by Smeaton , whose experiments are referred to later in this chapter . III . UNDERSHOT WHEELS In its most primitive form the vertical wheel was used for the raising of water for irrigation of land in the Far East ; the floats ...
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... later for coarse yarns , wet - spun being stronger and more silky in appearance . These methods of applying pressure to the fibres could not produce a perfectly regular yarn . The discovery of a superior method of preparation was the ...
... later for coarse yarns , wet - spun being stronger and more silky in appearance . These methods of applying pressure to the fibres could not produce a perfectly regular yarn . The discovery of a superior method of preparation was the ...
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... later in Italian cities . One of the first roads to be paved with bricks was that leading from The Hague to Scheveningen . Brick pavements had some suc- cess in the United States , where they were first introduced at Charleston ( 1870 ) ...
... later in Italian cities . One of the first roads to be paved with bricks was that leading from The Hague to Scheveningen . Brick pavements had some suc- cess in the United States , where they were first introduced at Charleston ( 1870 ) ...
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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