Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
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... apparatus which in some small degree facilitates some well known process ; or a fashionable toy or puzzle likely to have a good run for a season or two , and then a moderate sale for a few years longer ; these are the things to be ...
... apparatus which in some small degree facilitates some well known process ; or a fashionable toy or puzzle likely to have a good run for a season or two , and then a moderate sale for a few years longer ; these are the things to be ...
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... apparatus excited the curiosity of the inquisitive and the interest of the learned . The clever and eccentric Marquis of Worcester , in his little book published in 1663 , A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Inventions , gener ...
... apparatus excited the curiosity of the inquisitive and the interest of the learned . The clever and eccentric Marquis of Worcester , in his little book published in 1663 , A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Inventions , gener ...
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... apparatus as being eminently suited for mutual assistance in future useful- ness . The anemometer of the " Robinson " type , having four little hemispherical cups revolving horizontally , furnishes the first hint of another principle of ...
... apparatus as being eminently suited for mutual assistance in future useful- ness . The anemometer of the " Robinson " type , having four little hemispherical cups revolving horizontally , furnishes the first hint of another principle of ...
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... apparatus designed merely for the despatch of intelli- gence by signalling cannot safely be applied to the case of the transmission of energy . Making all due allowances for the prospects of advance in minimising the resistance of the ...
... apparatus designed merely for the despatch of intelli- gence by signalling cannot safely be applied to the case of the transmission of energy . Making all due allowances for the prospects of advance in minimising the resistance of the ...
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... apparatus had depended on the motion of close - fitting parts , as in the ordinary suction or lift pump . By subjecting bones As an instance of the class of work for which gaseous jets , for driving turbines or similar forms of motor ...
... apparatus had depended on the motion of close - fitting parts , as in the ordinary suction or lift pump . By subjecting bones As an instance of the class of work for which gaseous jets , for driving turbines or similar forms of motor ...
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