Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... present at one view all the new discoveries , useful inventions , and improved processes of the past year , must be a most acceptable volume to every one , and greatly facilitate the diffusion of 1 useful knowledge . As this work will ...
... present at one view all the new discoveries , useful inventions , and improved processes of the past year , must be a most acceptable volume to every one , and greatly facilitate the diffusion of 1 useful knowledge . As this work will ...
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... present work , one of whom , as a member of the Lawrence Scientific School , at Cambridge , has been under my personal instruction , are fully qualified to execute the difficult task of preparing such an abstract with credit , both to ...
... present work , one of whom , as a member of the Lawrence Scientific School , at Cambridge , has been under my personal instruction , are fully qualified to execute the difficult task of preparing such an abstract with credit , both to ...
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... present work was first suggest- ed by the examination of similar works , which have been published in Europe for several years past . We believed that . such a work could not fail to be useful to many persons , by enabling them to see ...
... present work was first suggest- ed by the examination of similar works , which have been published in Europe for several years past . We believed that . such a work could not fail to be useful to many persons , by enabling them to see ...
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... present plan , whose principle is to have the trains pass through long , low , straight , hollow tubes , one for the up trains and one for the down ones , composed of wrought- iron " boiler plates , " firmly riveted together . The tubes ...
... present plan , whose principle is to have the trains pass through long , low , straight , hollow tubes , one for the up trains and one for the down ones , composed of wrought- iron " boiler plates , " firmly riveted together . The tubes ...
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... present construction of boilers being stated at 8 pounds of water to 1 pound of coal . Besides the saving of fuel which would thus appear to be effected , there is also the obvious ad- vantage that the flame hardly impinges upon the ...
... present construction of boilers being stated at 8 pounds of water to 1 pound of coal . Besides the saving of fuel which would thus appear to be effected , there is also the obvious ad- vantage that the flame hardly impinges upon the ...
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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.
Página 5 - WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ; or, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
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.