A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... adopted , but more on small and medium holdings than on large . The last adopted the combined alternate husbandry and long ley system , while the peasant proprietors preferred the improved three - field system . Cattle were seldom ...
... adopted , but more on small and medium holdings than on large . The last adopted the combined alternate husbandry and long ley system , while the peasant proprietors preferred the improved three - field system . Cattle were seldom ...
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... adopted by instrument - makers who worked in steel , cast iron , brass , or copper . Apart from these , they do not appear to have had any special tools , except for an occasional device invented for executing a special job ; some such ...
... adopted by instrument - makers who worked in steel , cast iron , brass , or copper . Apart from these , they do not appear to have had any special tools , except for an occasional device invented for executing a special job ; some such ...
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... adopted the best available solutions , which quickly became standard ones . It has already been mentioned that it was the industrial manufacture of sextants that gave the incentive to the invention of dividing - engines . The quadrant ...
... adopted the best available solutions , which quickly became standard ones . It has already been mentioned that it was the industrial manufacture of sextants that gave the incentive to the invention of dividing - engines . The quadrant ...
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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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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 developed diameter driving E. J. HOLMYARD early eighteenth century engine England Europe fallow farming figure fish France French furnace glass heat horizontal husbandry Ibid important improved inches increased industrial revolution industry introduced invention J. F. Horrabin John Smeaton later lathe London machine machinery manufacture mechanical metal method mill mineral mines Newcomen Newcomen engine nineteenth century obtained operation oxide Paris patent pipe piston plate practice produced pump river road rollers rotation Rotherham plough salt screw sewers shaft ships silk Smeaton smelting Staffordshire steam steam-engine steel stone sulphuric acid surface temperature tion tuyère vertical ware water-wheels watermills Watt whales wheel wooden wrought iron