... royalties, of the order of five shillings on
each ton of the ore exported. By the 1680s it had become very evident that the
privileges granted to the Mines Royal Company and to the Society of Mineral
and ... Charter of Incorporation were led by the Brass
Battery, Wire and Copper Company of Bristol as it was then known. The
others were John Freeman and Copper Compan...
... explored.
Most of the plants which attempted to operate the carbo-thermic process
used variants of the approach patented by Hansgirg in Austria in the 1930s.
This involved the reaction of magnesite ... tons per
annum. In 1940 another unit of 5000 tons per annum was added, and a
further plant, capable of producing 10,000 tons per annum of magnesium
commenced production at...
... to an acute shortage of alkali and in 1775 the Academy of Sciences
offered a prize of 240 0 livres for a successful method of making soda from salt.
Nicolas Leblanc, physician to the Duc d’Orléans ... living
matter, whether plant or animal. Their preparation and uses in the textile, glass
and soap industries have already been mentioned. Another important group of
substances...
... the
experience provided by the development of the steam turbine between 1884
and 1935, and the demands of the aircraft industry for engines of increasing
power and efficiency. The fluid mechanical ... change in the course of the working cycle of
the engine. Second, the nomenclature is applicable to the steam engine,
because the combustion in the furnace of...
... entered the sea to the
west of Leiden. The third, the southern branch, is the modern outlet via
Rotterdam and the Hook of Holland. The Romans wished to connect the
middle and southern outlets in ... between the Massif Central to the
north and the foothills of the Pyrenees to the south suggested the site for a
waterway link between the Mediterranean and the...
... the
Netherlands and Luxembourg were united under William I of the
Netherlands. He recognized the importance of water transport and one
proposal of significance was to link the Meuse and the Moselle ... transport from the coal measures
being exploited in the valley. The nobility of Kleve, part of the domains of the
Elector of Brandendurg, persuaded the Ele...
... which the canal boats were carried to the summit of the
ridge at yoom (2300ft) and then the line descended by five more planes to
Johnstown on the western side of the range. The cradles on the planes ... under the water below the
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great deal of cotton until by the 1850s the railways were taking over. There are
still remains of some of thes...
... rest of the process, then as now, consisted of getting rid of the rest
of the water. The mould wires gave rise to the characteristic wire and chain
marks of hand-made paper, although Whatman introduced ... hand was born
the news-book and then the news-sheet. At first spasmodic the earliest English
example provided an account of the Battle of Flodden in 1513—th...
... city
walls of Babylon. The Chinese used them in the third century BC to construct
parts of the Great Wall.
The Romans (as did the Etruscans before them) made extensive use of
brick in all forms of construction. ... England there were two fundamental types: the box-frame and
the post and truss. The first of these was built with horizontal and vertical
timbers crossing...
... by many other designs developed by
different companies, notably the Magic of 1915, the British Vacuum Cleaner
Company’s version of 1921, and the Bustler of 1931. Electrolux then
pioneered the ... into the electric light sockets. There
were several models of the second type, many of them American. Nearly all
worked by means of one person powering a bellows by hand or fo...
... which stood all the year above the altar, bearing the Savior's figure, was taken down
and laid beneath the altar, a dramatic symbol of the Death and Burial; and two days later,
on 'the ... thekybk@yahoo.com
ceased to be Anglo-Saxon and became, altogether politically, and partly in race, Norman-
French, a change more radical and far-reaching than any which it has since underg...
... rate p.a. is, at less than 1%, extremely low. (For more about lithium
systems, see Chapter 16, Sec. 16.2.2.12, and Chapter 18.)
Since the beginning of primary cells it was tried again and again to ... as expensive
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