Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 40
Página 39
... wire - rope cable fastened on the seaward side to the buoy , and on the landward side to the machin- ery in the engine - house . The whole arrange- ment in fact is very similar in appearance to the " poppet - head " and surface ...
... wire - rope cable fastened on the seaward side to the buoy , and on the landward side to the machin- ery in the engine - house . The whole arrange- ment in fact is very similar in appearance to the " poppet - head " and surface ...
Página 53
... of very high voltage and eluding the only im- perfectly - solved problem of dividing a current traversing a wire as conveniently as lighting gas is divided by taking small pipes off from the CHAPTER III STORAGE OF POWER.
... of very high voltage and eluding the only im- perfectly - solved problem of dividing a current traversing a wire as conveniently as lighting gas is divided by taking small pipes off from the CHAPTER III STORAGE OF POWER.
Página 64
... wires . But when the laying of the latter is practicable — as it will be in the majority of instances - the gas for an engine will be obtainable without the need for forcing lime to combine with carbon as in calcium carbide . Petroleum ...
... wires . But when the laying of the latter is practicable — as it will be in the majority of instances - the gas for an engine will be obtainable without the need for forcing lime to combine with carbon as in calcium carbide . Petroleum ...
Página 69
... wires , the positions of despatch and of receipt can be so elevated that the resistance of the atmosphere can be almost indefinitely diminished . In this way small motors have been worked by discharges generated at considerable ...
... wires , the positions of despatch and of receipt can be so elevated that the resistance of the atmosphere can be almost indefinitely diminished . In this way small motors have been worked by discharges generated at considerable ...
Página 70
... wire- less telegraphy depends upon the marvellous susceptibility of the " coherer , " which enables it to respond to an impulse almost infini- tesimally small , certainly very much smaller than that despatched by the generator from the ...
... wire- less telegraphy depends upon the marvellous susceptibility of the " coherer , " which enables it to respond to an impulse almost infini- tesimally small , certainly very much smaller than that despatched by the generator from the ...
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.