A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... invention in connexion with hay- making was the horse - rake , which appeared early in the nineteenth century . It consisted of long metal teeth placed a short distance apart and mounted on a framework with wheels . When pulled along ...
... invention in connexion with hay- making was the horse - rake , which appeared early in the nineteenth century . It consisted of long metal teeth placed a short distance apart and mounted on a framework with wheels . When pulled along ...
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... invention was appreciated first in France . The manufacturers of cutlery at Sheffield , who in the beginning considered Huntsman's steel too hard , did not accept it until the competition of imported French cutlery forced them to do so ...
... invention was appreciated first in France . The manufacturers of cutlery at Sheffield , who in the beginning considered Huntsman's steel too hard , did not accept it until the competition of imported French cutlery forced them to do so ...
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... invention of the compound sighting telescope at the beginning of the seventeenth century altered the manu- facture of astronomical instruments only very slowly . The first such telescopes fitted to quadrants , for example , were more ...
... invention of the compound sighting telescope at the beginning of the seventeenth century altered the manu- facture of astronomical instruments only very slowly . The first such telescopes fitted to quadrants , for example , were more ...
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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