A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Clarendon Press, 1954 |
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... weight ought to be found to have increased by the whole of the quantity of the matter of fire which entered during the calcination . . . . If , on the contrary . . . the increase in weight of the metallic calx is not due to the ...
... weight ought to be found to have increased by the whole of the quantity of the matter of fire which entered during the calcination . . . . If , on the contrary . . . the increase in weight of the metallic calx is not due to the ...
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... weights of the oxygen and carbon atoms . Working in this way Dalton was able to construct a table of ' atomic weights ' of the elements , that is , the relative weights of their atoms taking the weight of the hydrogen atom as unity . By ...
... weights of the oxygen and carbon atoms . Working in this way Dalton was able to construct a table of ' atomic weights ' of the elements , that is , the relative weights of their atoms taking the weight of the hydrogen atom as unity . By ...
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... weight of a cast iron one of the same load - carrying capacity , and thus although the material was , weight for weight , twice as expen- sive , the net cost was about the same . The reduction in dead - load was therefore an advantage ...
... weight of a cast iron one of the same load - carrying capacity , and thus although the material was , weight for weight , twice as expen- sive , the net cost was about the same . The reduction in dead - load was therefore an advantage ...
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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