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Pagina xviii
... starch for manufacturing purposes from a non - alimentary substance . Enormous quantities of flour are used in the cotton manufacture alone . THE ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY . MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS xviii NOTES BY THE EDITOR .
... starch for manufacturing purposes from a non - alimentary substance . Enormous quantities of flour are used in the cotton manufacture alone . THE ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY . MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS xviii NOTES BY THE EDITOR .
Pagina 38
... manufacture . Nor is this all ; for , if there were only ten sizes instead of thirty , there would be three times the number made of each pattern ; and , as you know , the very soul of manufacture is repetition.— Mr. Whitworth's Address ...
... manufacture . Nor is this all ; for , if there were only ten sizes instead of thirty , there would be three times the number made of each pattern ; and , as you know , the very soul of manufacture is repetition.— Mr. Whitworth's Address ...
Pagina 56
... Manufacture of Railroad Rails . — Mr . W. Bayton , of Staffordshire , England , has patented a highly important improvement in the manufacture of T rails , by which it is claimed that the base , or flange , of the rail may be made at ...
... Manufacture of Railroad Rails . — Mr . W. Bayton , of Staffordshire , England , has patented a highly important improvement in the manufacture of T rails , by which it is claimed that the base , or flange , of the rail may be made at ...
Pagina 70
... MANUFACTURE AXLES , & C . OF RAILWAY BARS , Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Bars . — In the process of manu- facturing malleable iron rails as at present practised , the small fragments of puddled iron which are collected ...
... MANUFACTURE AXLES , & C . OF RAILWAY BARS , Improvements in the Manufacture of Railway Bars . — In the process of manu- facturing malleable iron rails as at present practised , the small fragments of puddled iron which are collected ...
Pagina 72
... manufacture is then concluded as above directed . PRESENT ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF IRON . Mr. Hewitt of New York , in a paper recently presented to the Geographi- cal and Statistical Society , furnished the following memoranda respecting ...
... manufacture is then concluded as above directed . PRESENT ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF IRON . Mr. Hewitt of New York , in a paper recently presented to the Geographi- cal and Statistical Society , furnished the following memoranda respecting ...
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Pagina xvi - ... other plants, adapted to the latitude and climate of the State of Maryland, and cause to be carefully noticed upon the records of said institution the character of said experiments, the kind of soil upon which they were undertaken, the system of cultivation adopted, the state of the atmosphere and...
Pagina 260 - ... wrought into the forms and shapes required, provided that we increase the size and power of our machinery to the extent necessary to deal with such large masses of metal. A few minutes...
Pagina 258 - ... carbon present allows a part of the oxygen to combine with the iron, which undergoes combustion and is converted into an oxide. At the excessive temperature that the metal has now acquired, the oxide as soon as formed undergoes fusion, and forms a powerful solvent of those earthy bases that are associated with the iron ; the violent ebullition which is going on mixes most intimately the...
Pagina 305 - Stream, the sounding from Lat. 31° 32', Long. 79° 35', depth 150 fathoms, is mentioned as " a mixture in about equal proportions of Globigerina and black sand, probably greensand, as it makes a green mark when crushed on paper.
Pagina 400 - STRENGTH AND OTHER PROPERTIES OF METALS; Reports of Experiments on the Strength and other Properties of Metals for Cannon. With a Description of the Machines for Testing Metals, and of the Classification of Cannon in service. By Officers of the Ordnance Department, US Army. By authority of the Secretary of War. Illustrated by 25 large steel plates. Quarto . $10.00 SULLIVAN. — Protection to Native Industry. By Sir EDWARD SULLIVAN, Baronet, author of " Ten Chapters on Social Reforms.
Pagina 144 - May, and published in the proceedings, shows that a wire of six times the length of the Varna and Balaklava wire, if of the same lateral dimensions, would give thirty-six times the retardation, and thirty-six times the slowness of action.
Pagina 400 - Gift of the State of New York. 13034, 0. 5. Sixth annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, &o.
Pagina 395 - A communication from Professor Henry of Washington having been read, containing a proposal for the publication of a catalogue of philosophical memoirs scattered throughout the Transactions of Societies in Europe and America, with the offer of co-operation on the part of the Smithsonian Institution, to the extent of preparing and publishing in accordance with the general plan which might be adopted by the British Association, a catalogue of all the American memoirs on physical science, — the Committee...