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A Dictionary Of Arts, Manufactures And Mines: Containing A Clear Exposition Of Their Principles And Practice (Volume Ii)

A Dictionary Of Arts, Manufactures And Mines: Containing A Clear Exposition Of Their Principles And Practice (Volume Ii)

Ure, Andrew

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Biographies GeneralTechnology & EngineeringBritish History

ISBN10: 9354503942
ISBN13: 9789354503948
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 728
Weight: 2.32
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Open the workshop doors of the nineteenth century and listen to the engines. Smoke, iron, invention, and relentless progress. It changed how Britain worked. In Volume II of Andrew Ure's A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, you get an industrial technology encyclopedia, alphabetical: a technical reference dictionary built for clarity and use. Ure explains processes, materials, and the logic behind them with crisp authority from a practising chemist. Spanning manufacturing machinery and tools, mining metallurgy and ores, and the evolving world of industrial chemistry materials, this volume serves both the curious browser and the bench-side consulter. Expect lucid definitions, practical distinctions, and the language of trade recorded before it hardened into modern jargon. The pages follow raw matter into useful form: from heat and pressure to finishing and measurement, from workshop practice to factory scale, from ore to metal, from solution to solid. Each entry becomes a compact lesson in applied science. It is also an artefact for industrial history researchers: a snapshot of victorian britain technology at full stride, when the industrial revolution britain was reshaping labour, trade, and daily life. Read it as a history of technology, mine it for terminology, or shelve it as one of the enduring engineering encyclopedia classics in any library reference collection, especially alongside the complete two-volume set. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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