The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volumen36

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A. and C. Black, 1844

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Página 389 - Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Página 212 - CATLOW.-POPULAR CONCHOLOGY; Or, the Shell Cabinet arranged: being an Introduction to the Modern System of Conchology : with a sketch of the Natural History of the Animals, an account of the Formation of the Shells, and a complete Descriptive List of the Families and Genera. By AGNES CATLOW.
Página 211 - Observations on Days of Unusual Magnetic Disturbance, made at the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories under the Departments of the Ordnance and Admiralty, printed by the British Government under the Superintendence of Lieut.-Col.
Página 309 - But the most uncommon and unsightly ornamental fashion, adopted by some of both sexes, is their having the under-lip slit, or cut, quite through, in the direction of the mouth, a little below the swelling part. This incision, which is made even in the sucking children, is often above two inches long, and either by its natural retraction, when the wound is fresh, or by the repetition of some artificial management, assumes the true shape of lips, and becomes so large as to admit the tongue through.
Página 206 - The fruit at first contains a clear insipid fluid, with which travellers allay their thirst ; afterwards this same liquor becomes milky and sweet, and it changes its taste by degrees as it acquires solidity, till at last it is almost as hard as Ivory. The liquor contained in the young fruits turns acid if they are cut from the tree and kept some time.
Página 392 - WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, being a communication from abroad, " certain improvements in machinery for preparing and combing wool, hair, and other fibrous substances.
Página 144 - ... of man is taxed to discover new sources of wealth, maintenance, and occupation ; and we find, under the dispensations of an all-wise Providence, that at suitable seasons resources are unveiled which have been long provided but concealed until the fit occasion presents itself. Amongst the numerous administrations of the same wise and merciful design, it is not unreasonable to believe that the...
Página 215 - improvements in the construction of boilers, part of which improvements is applicable for regulating the supply of water and other liquids." — 23d November 1843. 17. To WILLIAM PROSSER junior, of Shaftsbury Terrace, Pimlico, gentleman, " improvements in the construction of roads, and in carriages to run thereon."— 23d November 1843.
Página 171 - Ackworth, then first Lord of the Admiralty, who went down to Woolwich to see its performance in ventilating the hold of HMS Kinsale." It is but fair, however, to mention, in justice to the ingenious and philanthropic Dr Desaguliers, that he complains of the great difficulty he had in getting a proper trial of his machine by the Lords of the Admiralty in 1740. Exper. Phil. vol. ii. 4to. The wind-fan, or...
Página 206 - The Indians cover their cottages with the leaves of this most beautiful Palm. The fruit at first contains a clear insipid fluid, by which travellers allay their thirst ; afterwards this same liquor becomes milky and sweet, and it changes its taste by degrees as it acquires solidity, till at last it is almost as hard as ivory. The liquor contained in the young fruits becomes acid if they are cut from the tree and kept some time. From the...

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