A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... built up by the impact of marching troops or droves of cattle . Brown had built many , and had quite a number of failures , including his bridge of 449 - ft span across the Tweed at Berwick ; this he completed in 1820 , but it was blown ...
... built up by the impact of marching troops or droves of cattle . Brown had built many , and had quite a number of failures , including his bridge of 449 - ft span across the Tweed at Berwick ; this he completed in 1820 , but it was blown ...
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... built mainly of timber , had been built on the rock , but the first was destroyed by the exceptionally severe gales that swept along the south - west coast of England in November 1703 , spreading havoc and desolation , and the second by ...
... built mainly of timber , had been built on the rock , but the first was destroyed by the exceptionally severe gales that swept along the south - west coast of England in November 1703 , spreading havoc and desolation , and the second by ...
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... built in Austria . The first English concrete road was constructed in 1865. In 1872 the first concrete road in Scotland was built in Edinburgh ; France followed four years later with one at Grenoble . In 1887 the Blücher Platz at ...
... built in Austria . The first English concrete road was constructed in 1865. In 1872 the first concrete road in Scotland was built in Edinburgh ; France followed four years later with one at Grenoble . In 1887 the Blücher Platz at ...
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 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