A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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Page 527
... surface of the road was formed and completed with a finishing coat of stones broken smaller than those immediately ... surface , was formed of large stones placed on edge and hammered in . The next layer was of smaller stones , also ...
... surface of the road was formed and completed with a finishing coat of stones broken smaller than those immediately ... surface , was formed of large stones placed on edge and hammered in . The next layer was of smaller stones , also ...
Page 528
... surface , be- came unnecessarily and wastefully deep in the middle of the road . He believed that he could reduce the depth of the road - bed to 9-10 in from side to side , which would lower the cost to less than one - half . He says ...
... surface , be- came unnecessarily and wastefully deep in the middle of the road . He believed that he could reduce the depth of the road - bed to 9-10 in from side to side , which would lower the cost to less than one - half . He says ...
Page 540
... surface with hot powdered rock - asphalt and rolled it into a splendid road - surface ( Bordeaux - Bayonne , 1837 ) , but the under surface was wet and the trial failed . Malo , however , discovered a way to disintegrate the Travers ...
... surface with hot powdered rock - asphalt and rolled it into a splendid road - surface ( Bordeaux - Bayonne , 1837 ) , but the under surface was wet and the trial failed . Malo , however , discovered a way to disintegrate the Travers ...
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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