A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... method was soon in use throughout the United Kingdom , and about 1850 was adopted in the lead foundries of France , Spain , and Prussia . A further process , patented by Alexander Parkes of Birmingham in 1850 , was based on the ...
... method was soon in use throughout the United Kingdom , and about 1850 was adopted in the lead foundries of France , Spain , and Prussia . A further process , patented by Alexander Parkes of Birmingham in 1850 , was based on the ...
Page 367
... method had in the middle the bull's - eye or ' crown ' from which it took its name , this being the point where the pontil had been attached . The sheets were comparatively small , and as they were circular the size was still further ...
... method had in the middle the bull's - eye or ' crown ' from which it took its name , this being the point where the pontil had been attached . The sheets were comparatively small , and as they were circular the size was still further ...
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... methods had evolved very slowly , but it took only some forty years for dividing - engines to be adopted in all workshops . Towards the end of the sixteenth century Tycho Brahe had brought into use the method using transversals , the ...
... methods had evolved very slowly , but it took only some forty years for dividing - engines to be adopted in all workshops . Towards the end of the sixteenth century Tycho Brahe had brought into use the method using transversals , 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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