The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volumen29

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M. Salmon, 1838

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Página 252 - For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ? Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish...
Página 396 - An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Página 422 - The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides ; as, 5033 402+302.
Página 31 - Then, the 163d section enacts " that all persons shall have free liberty to pass along and upon, and to use and employ, the said railway, with carriages properly constructed as by this act directed, upon payment only of such rates and tolls as shall be demanded by the said company, not exceeding the respective rates or tolls by this act authorized, and subject to the...
Página 223 - Surrey, engineer, for an invention of an improved method or methods of generating steam power, and applying the same to ploughing, harrowing, and other agricultural purposes, which method or methods is or are also applicable to other purposes to which the power of steam is or may be applied.
Página 466 - He states that the cases of disease on the dark side of an extensive barrack at St. Petersburg have been uniformly for many years in the proportion of three to one to those on the side exposed to strong light.
Página 398 - ... not exceed two hundred tons, to provide and to carry with the said boat or vessel, upon each and every voyage, two long-boats or yawls, each of which shall be competent to carry at least twenty persons; and where the tonnage of said vessel shall exceed two hundred tons...
Página 398 - ... and taxes may be sued for and recovered in the name of the United States, in any proper form of action, before any...
Página 398 - Provides, that in all suits and actions against proprietors of steamboats, for injuries arising to person or property, from the bursting of the boiler of any steamboat, or the collapse of a flue, or other injurious escape of steam, the fact of such bursting, collapse, or injurious escape of steam, shall be taken as full primd facie evidence, sufficient to charge the defendant, or those in his employment, with negligence, until he shall show that no negligence has been committed by him or those in...
Página 398 - ... aforesaid, not less than three long-boats or yawls, of the same or larger dimensions ; and for every failure in these particulars, the said master and owner shall forfeit and pay three hundred dollars.

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