Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... York and New- castle Railroad , whose performance , both with regard to speed and to power , surpasses all previous experiments . It regularly runs 45 miles in 40 minutes with a train of cars , and it is computed that as soon as the new ...
... York and New- castle Railroad , whose performance , both with regard to speed and to power , surpasses all previous experiments . It regularly runs 45 miles in 40 minutes with a train of cars , and it is computed that as soon as the new ...
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... York to Liverpool , a distance of 3,023 miles , the paddles of the ocean steamers pass over a distance varying from 5,000 to 8,000 miles . This can be in a measure modified by giving the paddles a better hold of the fluid they sweep ...
... York to Liverpool , a distance of 3,023 miles , the paddles of the ocean steamers pass over a distance varying from 5,000 to 8,000 miles . This can be in a measure modified by giving the paddles a better hold of the fluid they sweep ...
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... York . The paddles are of sheet - iron , and instead of being fixed at right angles to the arms of the wheels , consist of two parallel plates vertical to the water , and so contrived , that when the paddle enters the water it as- sumes ...
... York . The paddles are of sheet - iron , and instead of being fixed at right angles to the arms of the wheels , consist of two parallel plates vertical to the water , and so contrived , that when the paddle enters the water it as- sumes ...
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... York to Liverpool and back , and it determined the changing variations during the voyage . We understand a stock company with ample capital has been organized ( of which Professor James Ren- wick is President ) to bring this invention ...
... York to Liverpool and back , and it determined the changing variations during the voyage . We understand a stock company with ample capital has been organized ( of which Professor James Ren- wick is President ) to bring this invention ...
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... York , has invented a new mode of manufacturing shot , which entirely removes the necessity of having the expensive towers now in use . In the ordinary process , the lead , after being dropped , in a fluid state , from a perforated ...
... York , has invented a new mode of manufacturing shot , which entirely removes the necessity of having the expensive towers now in use . In the ordinary process , the lead , after being dropped , in a fluid state , from a perforated ...
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Página 355 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
Página 237 - We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization.
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Página 147 - Sometimes it will be more convenient to arrange the two charts in symmetrical positions, one to the left and the other to the right of the subject's median plane, and with a slight inclination toward this plane.