Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... miles from any other habitation than his own hut . The result of these examinations are contained in two works , Etudes sur les Glaciers , and Système Glacière . In 1846 Agassiz came to America , and on the establishment of the Lawrence ...
... miles from any other habitation than his own hut . The result of these examinations are contained in two works , Etudes sur les Glaciers , and Système Glacière . In 1846 Agassiz came to America , and on the establishment of the Lawrence ...
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... mile long , were erected workshops , with the requisite forges and machinery . Several wharves were built and six steam - engines procured . 700 men were employed on the iron work , and 800 on the stone for the towers . We will describe ...
... mile long , were erected workshops , with the requisite forges and machinery . Several wharves were built and six steam - engines procured . 700 men were employed on the iron work , and 800 on the stone for the towers . We will describe ...
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... miles , and in weight to about 900 tons ! The mode in which these legions of rivets have been constructed is briefly as follows . At the western end of the company's principal forging establishment there stands a furnace or trough ...
... miles , and in weight to about 900 tons ! The mode in which these legions of rivets have been constructed is briefly as follows . At the western end of the company's principal forging establishment there stands a furnace or trough ...
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... miles . The Britannia tower in the centre of the strait is at the base 62 feet by 52 , and rises to a height of 230 feet . This enormous struc- ture , which weighs over 20,000 tons , contains 148,625 cubic feet of Anglesey marble for ...
... miles . The Britannia tower in the centre of the strait is at the base 62 feet by 52 , and rises to a height of 230 feet . This enormous struc- ture , which weighs over 20,000 tons , contains 148,625 cubic feet of Anglesey marble for ...
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... mile long , thus forming the longest suspension bridge in the world . It is proposed to have five piers , besides the two abut- ments , making four openings of 444 feet each , and two of 222 feet . The roadway will be 34 feet wide ...
... mile long , thus forming the longest suspension bridge in the world . It is proposed to have five piers , besides the two abut- ments , making four openings of 444 feet each , and two of 222 feet . The roadway will be 34 feet wide ...
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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.