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    Dosh

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    Tuesday‚ July 1‚ 2008 DOSH Malaysia ~ Introduction ~ The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is a department under the Ministery oh Human Resources. This department is responsible for ensuring the occupational safety‚ health and welfare of people at work as well as protecting other people from the safety and health hazards arising from the activities of various sectors which include: Manufacturing Mining and quarrying Constructions Hotel and restaurants

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    Boiler Operation.

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    out from the heat water tank to prevent overflow. DEARECTOR TANK. A deaerator is a device that is widely used for the removal of oxygen and other dissolved gases from the feedwater to steam-generating boilers. In particular‚ dissolved oxygen in boiler feedwaters will cause serious corrosion damage in steam systems by attaching to the walls of metal piping and other metallic equipment and forming oxides (rust). Dissolved carbon dioxide combines with water to form carbonic acid that causes further

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    Industrial Revolution

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    Chapter 22 Section 1 Origins of the Industrial movement The Enclosure Movement An agricultural revolution started to occur in the 1500’s Until the 1600’s farmers used public lands to graze cattle and sheep. Then these lands started to be enclosed‚ or fenced off‚ into individual plots This is called the Enclosure Movement. This benefited richer landowners‚ who added to their lands‚ but the smaller landowner was forced to become tenant farmers or had to move into the cities. A tenant farmer

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    intelligent inventors‚ such as James Watt‚ Eli Whitney‚ & Thomas Edison they innovated upon previous works to make the human lifestyle live in comfort. A Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer‚ James Watt made his mark when he improved upon the Newcomen steam engine which brought an important role in means of transportation during the Industrial Revolution.

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    Coal is used to power steam engines. Improvements in steam-engine technology are still taking place.  Britain has large deposits of iron and coal. These two minerals are key to the industrial revolution. We got resources growing on trees There are a number of rivers in Britain. In the years leading to the Industrial Revolution‚ water was used as a source of power and as a mode of transportation. Water provided energy to power mills (such as watermills)‚ precursors to steam engines and machines

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    Tractorization is the use of Tractor as source of power to under farm operations below is a history of tractors. The first powered farm implements in the early 19th century were portable engines – steam engines on wheels that could be used to drive

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    people in all parts of the world. Inventions like the cotton gin ‚ the mechanical reaper and the tractor revolutionized our agricultural system‚ while inventions such as steam power‚ trains and steam ships decreased the amount of time it took to travel and ship goods. Mr. Fogg and Passepartout use to their advantage the powers of steam and coal throughout the book to cross vast oceans and travel across countries‚ but even though with all the modern technological marvels‚ the companions are routinely

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    TWO words from the passage below for each blank space. Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine was one of the first devices to use the power of steam for mechanical work. It was originally used to pump water from mines. A boiler‚ encased in brick and sitting over a coal fire‚ generated steam‚ which drove the piston in the open top cylinder above the boiler. When the steam built up‚ the pressure opened a value allowing the steam to fill the cylinder and push the piston up. When the piston reached the top

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    Since the beginning of human life‚ enormous changes around us have taken us to a path of scientific progress‚ which in turn has benefited mankind in a number of ways. In every era‚ man has innovated a lot of things in order to cater to his rising needs. Imagine life in the Stone Age! The primitive ways of living just comprised man’s activities revolving around the search for food and shelter. They hunted animals for food and used caves as shelters‚ and animal skin and leaves to cover their bodies

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    nutrients out of the soil Better breeding 4 crop rotation (yield increases) *All produces better quality and more food --> which makes cheaper food --> more people use it first factories Spinning jenny Water frame Cotton mill Steam engine: energy was in shortage so the steam engine became a necessary source for energy Seed drill Better plows Railroads: carries coal from the mines to the factories Reduced the cost and uncertainty of shipping freight over land Changed the look on society    

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