Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... taken great pains to make the General Index to the whole as full and correct as possible . It will thus be seen , that the plan of the “ ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY is well designed to make it what it purports to be , a sub- stantial ...
... taken great pains to make the General Index to the whole as full and correct as possible . It will thus be seen , that the plan of the “ ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY is well designed to make it what it purports to be , a sub- stantial ...
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... taken to the end of the spinning - room , when the whole machinery , driven by an engine of 30 horse - power , was in full opera- tion . At a signal , a valve was opened that admitted the atmospheric air , which instantly choked the ...
... taken to the end of the spinning - room , when the whole machinery , driven by an engine of 30 horse - power , was in full opera- tion . At a signal , a valve was opened that admitted the atmospheric air , which instantly choked the ...
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... taken is four hundred feet in width throughout the entire length ; the road - bed is elevated from six to ten feet above the ordinary level of the country , and is thirty feet wide on the top . The road is laid with a double track , a ...
... taken is four hundred feet in width throughout the entire length ; the road - bed is elevated from six to ten feet above the ordinary level of the country , and is thirty feet wide on the top . The road is laid with a double track , a ...
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... taken at one end of the road and that remaining at the other . The Baltimore engines , in their 17 trips from Richmond to Pottsville , and vice versa , consumed 79.9 tons of coal , equal to an average of 4.45 tons per trip up , and 4.95 ...
... taken at one end of the road and that remaining at the other . The Baltimore engines , in their 17 trips from Richmond to Pottsville , and vice versa , consumed 79.9 tons of coal , equal to an average of 4.45 tons per trip up , and 4.95 ...
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... taken away from the joint - sleeper , and there was then only a slight deflection , so that the trial was entirely satisfactory . London Mining Journal . 4 * CAR - WHEELS . MR . HENRY SMITH has within MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 41.
... taken away from the joint - sleeper , and there was then only a slight deflection , so that the trial was entirely satisfactory . London Mining Journal . 4 * CAR - WHEELS . MR . HENRY SMITH has within MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 41.
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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.