Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, for [1850]-71, Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Botany, Mineralogy, Meteorology, Geography, Antiquities, Etc., Together with Notes on the Progress of Science ... a List of Recent Scientific Publications; Obituaries of Eminent Scientific Men, Etc. ...Gould and Lincoln, 1865 |
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... direction of the same have made arrangements for opening the Exhibition on a most extensive scale on the 1st of May next . Warned by the experience gained in 1851 , at Paris in 1855 , the Manchester Art - Treasures of 1857 , and the ...
... direction of the same have made arrangements for opening the Exhibition on a most extensive scale on the 1st of May next . Warned by the experience gained in 1851 , at Paris in 1855 , the Manchester Art - Treasures of 1857 , and the ...
Pagina 44
... direction of the grain , but of only 43,339 lbs . when strained across the grain . " - London Engineer . IRON IN BUILDINGS- USEFUL RULES . From a paper recently read before the Liverpool Architectural Society , by Mr. Wm . Stubbs , we ...
... direction of the grain , but of only 43,339 lbs . when strained across the grain . " - London Engineer . IRON IN BUILDINGS- USEFUL RULES . From a paper recently read before the Liverpool Architectural Society , by Mr. Wm . Stubbs , we ...
Pagina 73
... direction ; for the plates are not only hammered on the broad surface , but at the sides and at the top and bottom . The plates , after having been roughly formed into shape , are completely planed and squared . Planing machines of ...
... direction ; for the plates are not only hammered on the broad surface , but at the sides and at the top and bottom . The plates , after having been roughly formed into shape , are completely planed and squared . Planing machines of ...
Pagina 77
... direction to projectiles , that is , from vital parts . 2d . These cannot prevent the entrance of shot , but they can be made to nullify shells , either by direct fracture , if round , or by glancing them , if from rifled cannon . 3d ...
... direction to projectiles , that is , from vital parts . 2d . These cannot prevent the entrance of shot , but they can be made to nullify shells , either by direct fracture , if round , or by glancing them , if from rifled cannon . 3d ...
Pagina 78
... diary projectiles into the town and harbor , and there would be no masts , sails , or rigging to obstruct their flight in every direction . Guarded by loop - holed and bullet - proof towers 78 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
... diary projectiles into the town and harbor , and there would be no masts , sails , or rigging to obstruct their flight in every direction . Guarded by loop - holed and bullet - proof towers 78 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
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Pagina 413 - 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.
Pagina 413 - The Camel : His Organization, Habits and Uses, considered with reference to his introduction into the United States.
Pagina v - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 146 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space of action, involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping forever.
Pagina viii - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 62 - ... the glasses are taken off and wiped every day, and before they are put on again, the match is applied to the lip of the burner, and the stopcock cautiously opened, so that no more gas escapes than is sufficient to make a ring of blue flame, the glasses being then put on quite straight, the stopcocks are gently turned, until the flames stand at three inches high. When this is done, few chimney-glasses will be broken, and the ceilings will not be blackened for years.
Pagina 197 - Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality. To the gradual manner in which colloidal changes take place (for they always demand time as an element), may the...
Pagina 411 - POLITICAL ECONOMY ABRIDGED, and adapted to the use of Schools and Academies, by the Author.
Pagina 412 - HEADSHIP OF CHRIST, and the Rights of the Christian People, a Collection of Personal Portraitures, Historical and Descriptive Sketches and Essays, with the Author's celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham.
Pagina 197 - Another eminently characteristic quality of colloids, is their mutability. Their existence is a continued metastasis. A colloid may be compared in this respect to water while existing liquid at a temperature below its usual freezing point, or to a supersaturated saline solution.