A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... completed . If necessary , short boards can be driven above and at right - angles to the main timber . Other main timbers or ' bars ' are placed in the same manner , until the whole roof is supported . The gaps above the completed ...
... completed . If necessary , short boards can be driven above and at right - angles to the main timber . Other main timbers or ' bars ' are placed in the same manner , until the whole roof is supported . The gaps above the completed ...
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... completed by Smeaton . The outer basin , nearly enclosed by two curved arms projecting from the coast , was rapidly choking with silt when Smeaton reported upon it in 1774. A quarter of a million cu yds had already settled , and the ...
... completed by Smeaton . The outer basin , nearly enclosed by two curved arms projecting from the coast , was rapidly choking with silt when Smeaton reported upon it in 1774. A quarter of a million cu yds had already settled , and the ...
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... completed would have vitally affected the development of both Rotterdam and Amsterdam by diverting their trade to Antwerp . As early as 1598 Spinola , the general holding the southern Netherlands for Philip II of Spain , conceived the ...
... completed would have vitally affected the development of both Rotterdam and Amsterdam by diverting their trade to Antwerp . As early as 1598 Spinola , the general holding the southern Netherlands for Philip II of Spain , conceived 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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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