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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Pagina viii
... material in security and strength , when judiciously applied in the construction of ships of every class . Other considerations , however , affect the question of vessels of war ; and al- though numerous experiments were made , yet none ...
... material in security and strength , when judiciously applied in the construction of ships of every class . Other considerations , however , affect the question of vessels of war ; and al- though numerous experiments were made , yet none ...
Pagina x
... materials can be successfully overcome . The external protecting covering is still a subject of anxious consideration . The objections to iron wire are its weight and liability to corrosion . Hemp has been substituted , but at present ...
... materials can be successfully overcome . The external protecting covering is still a subject of anxious consideration . The objections to iron wire are its weight and liability to corrosion . Hemp has been substituted , but at present ...
Pagina xii
... material ; every new style of tool or pattern used or produced in any trade ; and ornaments and decora- tions formed from any material . In short , any new form of any arti- cle of manufacture may be patented . Makers of such articles ...
... material ; every new style of tool or pattern used or produced in any trade ; and ornaments and decora- tions formed from any material . In short , any new form of any arti- cle of manufacture may be patented . Makers of such articles ...
Pagina xv
... material ; the results of which bid fair to almost revolutionize the heretofore accepted science of warfare . In the United States , owing the paralyzation of many forms of industry by the civil war , the inventive skill of the country ...
... material ; the results of which bid fair to almost revolutionize the heretofore accepted science of warfare . In the United States , owing the paralyzation of many forms of industry by the civil war , the inventive skill of the country ...
Pagina xvi
... material , and infantry arms , especially rifled weapons . It includes a valuable work by Capt . Schon , of Saxony , on rifled infantry arms , translated by Capt . J. Gorgas , U. S. A .; a descrip- tion of the new French system of field ...
... material , and infantry arms , especially rifled weapons . It includes a valuable work by Capt . Schon , of Saxony , on rifled infantry arms , translated by Capt . J. Gorgas , U. S. A .; a descrip- tion of the new French system of field ...
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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.