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... power of the steam- engine came about the same time as the textile inven- tions . Though it is impossible here to give anything like an adequate account of the steam - engine in history and the mechanical principles involved , a few ...
... power of the steam- engine came about the same time as the textile inven- tions . Though it is impossible here to give anything like an adequate account of the steam - engine in history and the mechanical principles involved , a few ...
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... steam - engine began to take practical form in 1698 when Thomas Savery patented his engine for pumping water from mines . This invention was subsequently improved , and new principles adopted by Newcomen , Beighton , and Smeaton ; but ...
... steam - engine began to take practical form in 1698 when Thomas Savery patented his engine for pumping water from mines . This invention was subsequently improved , and new principles adopted by Newcomen , Beighton , and Smeaton ; but ...
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... steam- engine , which he patented from time to time . In 1819 he passed quietly away , and was buried in the parish ... steam power was coming into use , but it was not until 1795 that it was applied to cotton manufacturing . Since that ...
... steam- engine , which he patented from time to time . In 1819 he passed quietly away , and was buried in the parish ... steam power was coming into use , but it was not until 1795 that it was applied to cotton manufacturing . Since that ...
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... steam - engine was adopted as the motive power . Between 1766 and 1784 great advance was made in the methods of working malleable iron , and of changing cast into wrought iron ; grooved rolling supplanted hammering in 1783 ; this ...
... steam - engine was adopted as the motive power . Between 1766 and 1784 great advance was made in the methods of working malleable iron , and of changing cast into wrought iron ; grooved rolling supplanted hammering in 1783 ; this ...
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... steam - engine made by Watt , and the use of iron rails to aid in over- coming the difficulties of dragging heavy loads over almost impassable roads , made the possibilities of steam locomotion plain to the inventors of the time . The ...
... steam - engine made by Watt , and the use of iron rails to aid in over- coming the difficulties of dragging heavy loads over almost impassable roads , made the possibilities of steam locomotion plain to the inventors of the time . The ...
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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