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 87
Page 295
... operation of this kind was in use in 1835 in what was called the breaking - frame , to which the wool was taken after being combed [ 15 ] , but it was not introduced into the actual operation of drawing until the late forties . A ...
... operation of this kind was in use in 1835 in what was called the breaking - frame , to which the wool was taken after being combed [ 15 ] , but it was not introduced into the actual operation of drawing until the late forties . A ...
Page 365
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the job , and by regulating the ...
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the job , and by regulating the ...
Page 607
... operation was directed by the Royal Society and executed by William Roy , who had long advocated ' a general survey of the whole island at public cost ' and had already in 1783 observed a series of triangles round London . Roy's base ...
... operation was directed by the Royal Society and executed by William Roy , who had long advocated ' a general survey of the whole island at public cost ' and had already in 1783 observed a series of triangles round London . Roy's base ...
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