Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... river , and 58 feet above the highest flood ever known , except the celebrated one of 1832. The towers over which the suspension chains pass are built upon the abut- ments , and that at the eastern side rises 153 feet above low - water ...
... river , and 58 feet above the highest flood ever known , except the celebrated one of 1832. The towers over which the suspension chains pass are built upon the abut- ments , and that at the eastern side rises 153 feet above low - water ...
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... river there will be a small revolving or swivel bridge , by which the communication with the Polish side of the river can be at once cut off . This swivel bridge will communicate with the rest of the structure by an island formed of ...
... river there will be a small revolving or swivel bridge , by which the communication with the Polish side of the river can be at once cut off . This swivel bridge will communicate with the rest of the structure by an island formed of ...
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... river and hauled across on rollers to the other side ; but great difficulty was experienced in this , as of course the girders during this process could rest upon but few points , and one end of them must sometimes be sus- pended for ...
... river and hauled across on rollers to the other side ; but great difficulty was experienced in this , as of course the girders during this process could rest upon but few points , and one end of them must sometimes be sus- pended for ...
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... rivers in Prussia , where the underground system of telegraphs is adopted by the Prussian government ( already to the extent of 1,200 miles ) , although many of the railway companies suspend the wires between posts , as practised in ...
... rivers in Prussia , where the underground system of telegraphs is adopted by the Prussian government ( already to the extent of 1,200 miles ) , although many of the railway companies suspend the wires between posts , as practised in ...
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... River , Mass . , has invented a new mode of combining and operating a picker for power - looms , which has been in operation for some time , and has proved a valuable im- provement in the weaving art . The picker moves continually in a ...
... River , Mass . , has invented a new mode of combining and operating a picker for power - looms , which has been in operation for some time , and has proved a valuable im- provement in the weaving art . The picker moves continually in a ...
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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.