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... knowledge of first principles is far from perfect , and that a remedy should be immediately applied to avert the calamitous and fatal shipwrecks which so frequently fill the columns of the public prints . Impressed with the conviction ...
... knowledge of first principles is far from perfect , and that a remedy should be immediately applied to avert the calamitous and fatal shipwrecks which so frequently fill the columns of the public prints . Impressed with the conviction ...
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... knowledge of the conditions of rupture of iron vessels on the present prin- ciple of construction appeared to exist , I lost no time in applying the results of my own experiments on girders to this case , and submitted my conclusions to ...
... knowledge of the conditions of rupture of iron vessels on the present prin- ciple of construction appeared to exist , I lost no time in applying the results of my own experiments on girders to this case , and submitted my conclusions to ...
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... growing employ the expansive principle , has caused crease of the working pressure from 10 lbs . to even in some cases to 150 lbs . on the B square i tunately , however , our knowledge of the principles of EXPERIMENTAL RESEARC.
... growing employ the expansive principle , has caused crease of the working pressure from 10 lbs . to even in some cases to 150 lbs . on the B square i tunately , however , our knowledge of the principles of EXPERIMENTAL RESEARC.
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... knowledge of the forms of construction best calculated to retain an agent of such potent force ; and as explosions become more frequent in proportion as the pressure is increased , it is the more necessary to inquire into the causes of ...
... knowledge of the forms of construction best calculated to retain an agent of such potent force ; and as explosions become more frequent in proportion as the pressure is increased , it is the more necessary to inquire into the causes of ...
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... will be shortly forthcoming as a new on to our knowledge , and that more particularly in TABLE XII . Resistance of Lead Tubes to Internal Pressure its application to the wants and necessities of the present Generalisation of the results.
... will be shortly forthcoming as a new on to our knowledge , and that more particularly in TABLE XII . Resistance of Lead Tubes to Internal Pressure its application to the wants and necessities of the present Generalisation of the results.
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20 tons applied in lbs Author bar iron boiler Boiler plate bridges Britannia Bridge calculated cast-iron collapsing pressure compression construction crane Crown 8vo Crown-glass crushed cube cylinder deck defects diameter elongation experiments external pressure Fahr feet 6 inches fibre Flint-glass flues force formula fracture Grauwacke Green glass HISTORY Illustrations improvements inch in lbs inch thick increase Ingleton iron ships iron vessels keelsons Keyham labour Lectures length load longitudinal machine material mean ments mills millwright nearly observed Penmaenmawr Portrait Post 8vo powers of resistance practical present principle red heat Remarks Rennie Resistance of Glass revised riveted Royal Charter rupture Sandstone Second Edition sectional area specimens square inch Staffordshire steam engine stone Strain applied strength strength of materials stringers subjected temperature tensile tensile strength Thicknesses measured Third Edition tons per square tubes vols wheel Woodcuts wrought iron
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