Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
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... energy producing power and light - is an invention of the second half of the nineteenth century , although the main principles upon which it was built were worked out prior to the year 1851 . It will be seen , in the course of the subse ...
... energy producing power and light - is an invention of the second half of the nineteenth century , although the main principles upon which it was built were worked out prior to the year 1851 . It will be seen , in the course of the subse ...
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... energy that is generated to - day owes its existence primarily to the steam- engine and to other forms of reciprocating machinery designed to utilise the expansive power of vapours or gases acting in a similar manner to steam . The ...
... energy that is generated to - day owes its existence primarily to the steam- engine and to other forms of reciprocating machinery designed to utilise the expansive power of vapours or gases acting in a similar manner to steam . The ...
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... energy , fuel that of the power obtained from steam and other mechanical expansive engines ; rain , as it falls on the hill - tops and descends in long lines of natural force to the sea coasts , furnishes power to the water - wheel ...
... energy , fuel that of the power obtained from steam and other mechanical expansive engines ; rain , as it falls on the hill - tops and descends in long lines of natural force to the sea coasts , furnishes power to the water - wheel ...
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... energy of the tides to account for power in the service of man , comparatively little attention has been paid to the problem of similarly utilising the wave - power , which goes to waste in such inconceivably huge quantities . Where the ...
... energy of the tides to account for power in the service of man , comparatively little attention has been paid to the problem of similarly utilising the wave - power , which goes to waste in such inconceivably huge quantities . Where the ...
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... energy of the wind is expended upon the oblique sails of an ordinary wind - wheel . Moreover , in the case of a number of such wheels set on a long axis , one behind the other as described , the space within which the shelter of the ...
... energy of the wind is expended upon the oblique sails of an ordinary wind - wheel . Moreover , in the case of a number of such wheels set on a long axis , one behind the other as described , the space within which the shelter of the ...
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