A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 352
... operation , and so im- pressed was Turner with the possibilities of steam - power that , on his return , he installed an engine to pump water back over an existing water - wheel , exactly as Matthew Boulton did at the Soho Manufactory ...
... operation , and so im- pressed was Turner with the possibilities of steam - power that , on his return , he installed an engine to pump water back over an existing water - wheel , exactly as Matthew Boulton did at the Soho Manufactory ...
Page 365
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the gob , and by regulating the ...
... operation as required . Glass rod was made in exactly the same way , except that the gathering was on a solid iron . Drawing tubes by hand was highly skilled work , but by varying the size and shape of the gob , and by regulating the ...
Page 390
... operations required for this method . A D B 130 120 40 50 60 25 1701 13 10 F 10 15 The construction of the first ... operation . FIGURE 218 — Division of a limb by transversals . The outer curve is the geometric locus of the centres ...
... operations required for this method . A D B 130 120 40 50 60 25 1701 13 10 F 10 15 The construction of the first ... operation . FIGURE 218 — Division of a limb by transversals . The outer curve is the geometric locus of the centres ...
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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