Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... direction they can most profitably apply their labors . The language of Bacon concerning one branch of science applies with equal force to all its branches : - " Nothing is of greater efficacy in procuring a stock of new and useful ...
... direction they can most profitably apply their labors . The language of Bacon concerning one branch of science applies with equal force to all its branches : - " Nothing is of greater efficacy in procuring a stock of new and useful ...
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... direction of the celebrated Professor Tiedemann . At the Univer- sity he was noted , not only for assiduity in study , but for the rare talent of managing with equal dexterity the rapier and the scalpel . From Heidelberg he went to the ...
... direction of the celebrated Professor Tiedemann . At the Univer- sity he was noted , not only for assiduity in study , but for the rare talent of managing with equal dexterity the rapier and the scalpel . From Heidelberg he went to the ...
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... direction of an English engineer , and was finished in January , 1849 , at a cost of 3,200,000 dollars . This bridge has a clear water - way of 1,250 feet , the centre span or opening being 670 feet . The height of the suspension towers ...
... direction of an English engineer , and was finished in January , 1849 , at a cost of 3,200,000 dollars . This bridge has a clear water - way of 1,250 feet , the centre span or opening being 670 feet . The height of the suspension towers ...
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... direction the links are drawn closer together , and by turning it in the other they are extended . It is worked by an ingeniously constructed toothed wheel , fixed to the middle of the screw , about which a lever is provided with a ...
... direction the links are drawn closer together , and by turning it in the other they are extended . It is worked by an ingeniously constructed toothed wheel , fixed to the middle of the screw , about which a lever is provided with a ...
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... a whale - boat and with the very small charge of four drachms of powder projected the harpoon , with a line attached , a distance of 23 fathoms in a straight and unerring direction . A second MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 45.
... a whale - boat and with the very small charge of four drachms of powder projected the harpoon , with a line attached , a distance of 23 fathoms in a straight and unerring direction . A second MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 45.
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Página 5 - ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ; or, 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 231 - We immediately pulled in for the shore, and Dr. Anderson and I went up and examined it. The beach was a soft, slimy mud encrusted with salt, and a short distance from the water, covered with saline fragments and flakes of bitumen. We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of...
Página 147 - Sometimes it will be more convenient to arrange the two charts in symmetrical positions, one to the left and the other to the right of the subject's median plane, and with a slight inclination toward this plane.
Página 113 - ... out of paper or into the hand, without exciting it to such a degree as to open the leaves of an electrometer one or more inches ; or if it be unelectrified, the slightest passage over the hand or face, the clothes, or almost any other substance gives it an electric state. Some of the gutta percha is sold in very thin sheets, resembling in general appearance oiled silk ; and if a strip of this be drawn through the fingers, it is so electric as to adhere to the hand or attract pieces of paper....
Página 232 - We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization.
Página 186 - ... checked. About two months afterwards, this mixture is coloured thus : — a quantity of dried elderberries is put into coarse bags ; these are placed in vats, and a part of the wine to be coloured being thrown over them, they are trodden by men till the whole of the colouring matter is expressed, when the husks are thrown away.
Página 1 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges.
Página 186 - MADE. 71 smashed, and then left to ferment. When the wine is about half fermented it is transferred from the vat to tonels ; and brandy (several degrees above proof) is thrown in, in the proportion of twelve to twenty-five gallons to the pipe of must, by which the fermentation is generally checked.
Página 220 - ... the Atchafalaya. This delta is about 14,000 square miles in area, and elevated from a few inches to ten feet above the level of the sea. The greater part of it protrudes into the Gulf of Mexico beyond the general coast- line. The level plain to the north, as far as Cape Girardeau in the Missouri, above the junction of the Ohio, is of the same character, including, according to Mr.