Works of ManViking, 1985 - 352 pages "A history of inventions and engineering from the pyramids to the space shuttle"--Jacket subtitle. |
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... comparatively large quantities at comparatively little cost . From the mid - 1850s onwards a succession of improvements in methods and techniques changed the steel - making industry year by year so that Bessemer's importance lay not ...
... comparatively large quantities at comparatively little cost . From the mid - 1850s onwards a succession of improvements in methods and techniques changed the steel - making industry year by year so that Bessemer's importance lay not ...
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Ronald William Clark. investigations might be applied in other fields . The idea was comparatively simple . The products of combustion were not led direct from the furnace to the chimney but were conducted through a chamber lined with ...
Ronald William Clark. investigations might be applied in other fields . The idea was comparatively simple . The products of combustion were not led direct from the furnace to the chimney but were conducted through a chamber lined with ...
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... comparatively huge amount of energy was released ; secondly , the process released one or more further neutrons from the split uranium nucleus . These in turn could , in the right circumstances , be used to split further nuclei in a ...
... comparatively huge amount of energy was released ; secondly , the process released one or more further neutrons from the split uranium nucleus . These in turn could , in the right circumstances , be used to split further nuclei in a ...
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