A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... mechanical problems posed by their installation were very difficult to solve ; their cost was very high . It was only towards 1850 that large reflecting telescopes were built again . Lord Rosse's 52 - ft telescope , constructed in ...
... mechanical problems posed by their installation were very difficult to solve ; their cost was very high . It was only towards 1850 that large reflecting telescopes were built again . Lord Rosse's 52 - ft telescope , constructed in ...
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... mechanical improvements made during this period in instruments for geodesy . Among these we shall mention only the graphometer , in which the telescope was substituted fairly late for the sighted alidade . This substitution involved a ...
... mechanical improvements made during this period in instruments for geodesy . Among these we shall mention only the graphometer , in which the telescope was substituted fairly late for the sighted alidade . This substitution involved a ...
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... mechanical in- genuity and he died in poverty , unlike the other eminent machine - tool inventors mentioned in this chapter who , it is pleasant to record , were financially successful . James Nasmyth ( 1808-90 ) was born in Edinburgh ...
... mechanical in- genuity and he died in poverty , unlike the other eminent machine - tool inventors mentioned in this chapter who , it is pleasant to record , were financially successful . James Nasmyth ( 1808-90 ) was born in Edinburgh ...
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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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