A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... method was soon in use throughout the United Kingdom , and about 1850 was adopted in the lead foundries of France , Spain , and Prussia . A further process , patented by Alexander Parkes of Birmingham in 1850 , was based on the ...
... method was soon in use throughout the United Kingdom , and about 1850 was adopted in the lead foundries of France , Spain , and Prussia . A further process , patented by Alexander Parkes of Birmingham in 1850 , was based on the ...
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... method had in the middle the bull's - eye or ' crown ' from which it took its name , this being the point where the pontil had been attached . The sheets were comparatively small , and as they were circular the size was still further ...
... method had in the middle the bull's - eye or ' crown ' from which it took its name , this being the point where the pontil had been attached . The sheets were comparatively small , and as they were circular the size was still further ...
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... methods enabling this lay - out to be effected strictly were perfected in the first few years of the eighteenth century . FIGURE 217 - Method of division by transversals . For a long time one great difficulty still remained in the ...
... methods enabling this lay - out to be effected strictly were perfected in the first few years of the eighteenth century . FIGURE 217 - Method of division by transversals . For a long time one great difficulty still remained in the ...
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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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