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Populaire passages
Pagina 373 - Divide the absolute term into periods of as many figures each as there are units in the index of the first term, if necessary ; and mark out a place for the quotient on the
Pagina 77 - improved method of transferring vessels from a higher to a lower level, or from a lower to a higher level on canals, and also for the more conveniently raising or lowering of weights, carriages, or goods, on rail-roads,
Pagina 398 - of Gwennap, Cornwall, for improvements in the construction and working of engines with steam and air, and in the boiler or generator of steam, and in the application of such improved engines to a new method of propelling of vessels and other floating
Pagina 168 - Molecules were found in abundance. I remark here also, partly as a caution to those who may hereafter engage in the same inquiry, that the dust or soot deposited on all bodies in such quantity, especially in London, is entirely composed of these molecules.
Pagina 89 - During the months of January and February I made several visits to the top of Vesuvius: I shall not particularize them all; but shall mention only such as afforded me some new observations. On the 26th of January, the lava was seen nearly white hot through a chasm near the place where it flowed from the mountain.
Pagina 460 - About 3-10ths of this quantity is of a quality suitable for the foundry, which is all used in Great Britain and Ireland, with the exception of a small quantity exported to France and America. The other 7-10ths is made into bars, rods, sheets, &c., of which a large quantity is exported to all parts of the world.—Repertory of Arts, October 1828.
Pagina 166 - Having found motion in the particles of the pollen of all the living plants which I had examined, I was led next to inquire whether this property continued after the death of the plant, and for what length of time it was retained.
Pagina 333 - superintendant engaged in directing the cutting of wood in Africa, erected thirty earthen furnaces on the spot where his men were employed, lighting them every day. Before this, he had always from forty to forty-eight of his workmen sick; when in a short time they were reduced to twelve, then to four, and finally to one.
Pagina 90 - as a black smoke, forming black clouds; and in the night it was highly luminous at the moment of the explosion. On the 20th of February, the small crater which had been disengaging steam and elastic matter, began to throw out showers of stones; and both craters from the 20th to the
Pagina 61 - with which the voice from the pulpit was heard : these defects have been completely remedied by the erection of a concave sounding-board, having the form resulting from half a revolution of one branch of a parabola on its axis. It is made of