A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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Page 109
... passed out to the tuyère at the other end , the temperature being raised to c 200 ° F. Below is the elevation ( B ) and plan ( C ) of an im- proved device in which the iron chambers were re- placed by cast iron retort - shaped vessels ...
... passed out to the tuyère at the other end , the temperature being raised to c 200 ° F. Below is the elevation ( B ) and plan ( C ) of an im- proved device in which the iron chambers were re- placed by cast iron retort - shaped vessels ...
Page 110
Charles Joseph Singer. from the tuyère and passed through the arched tubes over the fire into the pipe on the other side of the grate , whence it passed into the tuyère . The whole apparatus was enclosed in an arched oven , so as to ...
Charles Joseph Singer. from the tuyère and passed through the arched tubes over the fire into the pipe on the other side of the grate , whence it passed into the tuyère . The whole apparatus was enclosed in an arched oven , so as to ...
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... passed through them . Two such substances were caustic soda and caustic potash . It is true that Lavoisier , with characteristic flair , had suspected them to be metallic compounds containing oxygen , but the suspicion had never been ...
... passed through them . Two such substances were caustic soda and caustic potash . It is true that Lavoisier , with characteristic flair , had suspected them to be metallic compounds containing oxygen , but the suspicion had never been ...
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 |
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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