Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 24
Página 1
... railway locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick , who had studied the steam engine under a friend and assistant of James Watt . His patent , which was secured during the ensuing year , makes distinct men- tion of the use of his ...
... railway locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick , who had studied the steam engine under a friend and assistant of James Watt . His patent , which was secured during the ensuing year , makes distinct men- tion of the use of his ...
Página 4
... railway locomotive . Again , in 1801 , Sir Humphry Davy gave his first lecture at the Royal Institution in London , where he had just been installed as a professor , and began that long series of investigations into the chemistry of ...
... railway locomotive . Again , in 1801 , Sir Humphry Davy gave his first lecture at the Royal Institution in London , where he had just been installed as a professor , and began that long series of investigations into the chemistry of ...
Página 14
... Railway men , who understood the wonderful elasticity imparted by air to pieces of mechan- ism , such as the pneumatic brake , were not by any means so much inclined to laughter ; but naturally , for the most part , they deferred to the ...
... Railway men , who understood the wonderful elasticity imparted by air to pieces of mechan- ism , such as the pneumatic brake , were not by any means so much inclined to laughter ; but naturally , for the most part , they deferred to the ...
Página 54
... railway traffic exactly the same recommendations have , at one period during the fourth quarter of the nine- teenth century , given an adventitious stimulus to the use of compressed air . Yet it is now undoubted that , even in deep ...
... railway traffic exactly the same recommendations have , at one period during the fourth quarter of the nine- teenth century , given an adventitious stimulus to the use of compressed air . Yet it is now undoubted that , even in deep ...
Página 93
... railway line was a success . Many inventors at once jumped to the conclusion that , by making some fixed allowance for the greater roughness of an ordi- nary road , they would be able to construct a steam - traction engine that would ...
... railway line was a success . Many inventors at once jumped to the conclusion that , by making some fixed allowance for the greater roughness of an ordi- nary road , they would be able to construct a steam - traction engine that would ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
adopted already alternate current apparatus appliances application B.Sc BOTANY buoy cable calcium carbide carrying cheap CHEMISTRY collectivism College Coloured compressed air constructed convenient course Crown 8vo D.Sc Diagrams direction driving dynamo economical effect electric current electric lighting ELEMENTARY energy engine fact force future heat Hospital Illustrations improvement industrial INORGANIC CHEMISTRY invention inventor JOHN TYNDALL kind latter Lecturer LL.D lodes Lond machine machinery MAGNETISM Manual means mechanical ment metal methods miner mining motion motor natural naval nineteenth century numerous operation PHYSIOLOGY piano pipe Plates practically principle Professor progress pumping purposes R. A. PROCTOR rail railway render road Royal 8vo running sail Science screw shaft ship side speed station steam steam-engine steel storage battery STRENGTH OF MATERIALS suitable tank telegraphy TEXT-BOOK tion traction traction engines truck turbine twentieth century utilised ventilation vessel wave-power waves wheel wind windmill wire Woodcuts
Pasajes populares
Página 28 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Página 28 - NOTES OF A COURSE OF NINE LECTURES ON LIGHT, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1869. Crown 8vo. , is. 6d. -NOTES OF A COURSE OF SEVEN LECTURES ON ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA AND THEORIES, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1870.
Página 16 - NEW STAR ATLAS FOR THE LIBRARY, the School, and the Observatory, in Twelve Circular Maps (with Two Index-Plates).
Página 15 - Other Worlds than Ours ; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches.
Página 15 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Página 16 - NATURE STUDIES. By RA PROCTOR, GRANT ALLEN, A. WILSON, T. FOSTER, and E. CLODD.
Página 9 - BALE.— A. HAND-BOOK FOR STEAM USERS; being Rules for Engine Drivers and Boiler Attendants, with Notes on Steam Engine and Boiler Management and Steam Boiler Explosions. By M. Powis BALE, MIME, AMICE Fcp. 8vo., 2s.
Página 19 - AND WRIGHT— THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL. By HENRY ASHBY, MD, Lond., FRCP, Physician to the General Hospital for Sick Children, Manchester; and GA WRIGHT, BA, MB Oxon.
Página 21 - Garrod. — WORKS BY SIR ALFRED BARING GARROD, MDFRS A TREATISE ON GOUT AND RHEUMATIC GOUT (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS). With 6 Plates, comprising 21 Figures (14 Coloured), and 27 Illustrations engraved on Wood. 8vo.
Página 23 - Schafer. — THE ESSENTIALS OF HISTOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE AND PRACTICAL. For the use of Students.