Nature, Volumen24Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 |
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... whole of the City are of thick copper , very well insulated , and laid under ground after the customary manner of laying down wires for telegraphic purposes . The smaller lights are worked by alternating currents on the system with ...
... whole of the City are of thick copper , very well insulated , and laid under ground after the customary manner of laying down wires for telegraphic purposes . The smaller lights are worked by alternating currents on the system with ...
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... whole effect of this retardation must be conceived as almost insignificant . The question , then , that I would ask is this : -May not the fact that any given gradient for an east wind is wholly contributed by the strata of atmosphere ...
... whole effect of this retardation must be conceived as almost insignificant . The question , then , that I would ask is this : -May not the fact that any given gradient for an east wind is wholly contributed by the strata of atmosphere ...
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... whole range of the colours , as modified by the succession - colour , might be different according to the different object of the geo- logist . Thus if he had to exhibit the whole geology of England , all limestones whatever must come ...
... whole range of the colours , as modified by the succession - colour , might be different according to the different object of the geo- logist . Thus if he had to exhibit the whole geology of England , all limestones whatever must come ...
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... whole it tended to choke the charnel , not to scour it . 3. The low - water flow , if left to itself , scoured away the deposit and kept the channel open 4. Hence it was concluded that where the two acted together , the scour must be ...
... whole it tended to choke the charnel , not to scour it . 3. The low - water flow , if left to itself , scoured away the deposit and kept the channel open 4. Hence it was concluded that where the two acted together , the scour must be ...
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... whole power might be transmitted by a fine copper wire , if it could only be sufficiently well insulated . He also showed that instead of a limiting efficiency of 50 per cent . , the one thing preventing our receiving the whole of our ...
... whole power might be transmitted by a fine copper wire , if it could only be sufficiently well insulated . He also showed that instead of a limiting efficiency of 50 per cent . , the one thing preventing our receiving the whole of our ...
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