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... regenerative furnace and gas producer , the use of machinery in the place of hand labour in puddling and handling heavy castings , the utilisation of electricity in drawing iron from the crushed ore 32 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... regenerative furnace and gas producer , the use of machinery in the place of hand labour in puddling and handling heavy castings , the utilisation of electricity in drawing iron from the crushed ore 32 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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Charles Austin Beard. utilisation of electricity in drawing iron from the crushed ore , and innumerable other minor improvements have come in rapid succession , adding greatly to the develop- ment of the iron industry , and ...
Charles Austin Beard. utilisation of electricity in drawing iron from the crushed ore , and innumerable other minor improvements have come in rapid succession , adding greatly to the develop- ment of the iron industry , and ...
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... Electricity has been harnessed to flash our messages over land and under sea , and to turn our nights into day . Through all these achievements we see the subtle and cunning brain of man unravelling the secret powers of Nature , and ...
... Electricity has been harnessed to flash our messages over land and under sea , and to turn our nights into day . Through all these achievements we see the subtle and cunning brain of man unravelling the secret powers of Nature , and ...
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... electricity in its diversified uses for lighting , heating , transmission of power , telegraphing and telephoning , and innumerable other purposes ; sani- tation , treatment and utilisation of sewage , control of disease , tunnelling ...
... electricity in its diversified uses for lighting , heating , transmission of power , telegraphing and telephoning , and innumerable other purposes ; sani- tation , treatment and utilisation of sewage , control of disease , tunnelling ...
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... electric currents produce chemical action , and that the com- bustion of nitrogen in such quantities as to be valuable is possible if the proper electric current can be produced . He has also succeeded in producing the required current ...
... electric currents produce chemical action , and that the com- bustion of nitrogen in such quantities as to be valuable is possible if the proper electric current can be produced . He has also succeeded in producing the required current ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool