A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... obtained by the Swedish chemist Brandt in 1733 from the mineral cobalt or zaffre , long used to give a blue colour to glass . Until the second half of the nineteenth century the metal was scarcely more than a labora- tory curiosity and ...
... obtained by the Swedish chemist Brandt in 1733 from the mineral cobalt or zaffre , long used to give a blue colour to glass . Until the second half of the nineteenth century the metal was scarcely more than a labora- tory curiosity and ...
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... obtained for individual houses and industries , and also to rely upon springs issuing at the junction of pervious strata with impervious clay . The spread of pollution , however , caused many of these supplies to be abandoned , and ...
... obtained for individual houses and industries , and also to rely upon springs issuing at the junction of pervious strata with impervious clay . The spread of pollution , however , caused many of these supplies to be abandoned , and ...
Page 498
... obtained partly from springs but principally from the Seine . From 1786 the water was sold by water - carriers , who hawked the water obtained from public tanks known as fontaines marchandes , but from 1819 it was forbidden to fill the ...
... obtained partly from springs but principally from the Seine . From 1786 the water was sold by water - carriers , who hawked the water obtained from public tanks known as fontaines marchandes , but from 1819 it was forbidden to fill 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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